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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575382
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575382
HU40 1 SUMBURGH HEAD
HU/407079
A possible broch in Dunrossness, on the site of the present lighthouse, claimed as an antiquity by Dryden on unknown evidence, perhaps the name of the headland [2]. Ramparts cross the neck of the headland [1].
Sources: 1. OS card HU 40 NW 1: 2. Arch. Scot. vol. 5 (1890), 211: 3. Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 1956, 26.
E W MacKie 2002
