Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575440
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU48 2 WEST SANDWICK ('The Brough') HU/440887
Probable broch on Yell I., on a small tidal islet. The site is a turf-covered mound through which the outer wall face can be seen, indicating an overall diameter of almost 17.5m [1]. The upper courses of a corbelled mural cell can be seen in the south-west arc and the entrance, now greatly obscured, is apparently on the east side. The outer defences are much eroded but two low, turf-covered ramparts can be seen on the north side with a rock-cut ditch between them, 2.5m deep. Erosion has produced a cliff face with a cross section at the west end of the inner rampart where it can be seen to be 2.0m thick with a rubble core faced with revetted slabs set on edge.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 48 NW 1 (with sketch plan): 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1722, 163.
E W MacKie 2002
