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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575381
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575381
HU39 1 FETHALAND ('Easter Wick')
HU/375943
Possible broch in Northmavine. A structure exists there and was partially dug out and planned in 1904 [4]. It bears little resemblance to a broch except in what may be two curved, rectangular wall chambers which seem to lie on the circumference of a circle about 30 ft. in diameter, rather small for a broch [2, fig. 603]; the site has been extensively quarried. More of it had been destroyed by 1931 [2].
A list of the finds made in 1904 includes nothing specifically of broch type [4, 174].
Sources: OS card HU 36 NW 10: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1355, 91 and fig. 603: 3. C. S. T. Calder in Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 1956, 28: 4. Lord Abercromby in P.S.A.S., 39 (1904-5), 171.
E W MacKie 2002
The RCAHMS reference for this site is HU39SE 1.
Information from RCAHMS (LMcC) 17 July 2009
