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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575394
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575394
HU43 1 AITHSETTER ('Broch of Aithsetter')
HU/447304
Possible broch in Dunrossness, on a high rocky promontory; the mutilated mound, completely covered with turf, is 2.5m (0 ft. 0 ins.) high. There are traces of two concentric curved ramparts on the narrow neck leading to the headland.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 43 SW 2 (with plan): 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1141, 23.
E W MacKie 2002
