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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

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