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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575444
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575444
HU54 4 NOSS SOUND HU/528410
This probable broch on Bressay I. stands near the end of a rocky headland with considerable outer defences. An earth and stone bank crosses the neck of the promontory 7.78 m (25.5 ft.) from the broch with a second, more massive one 4.58 m (15 ft.) beyond it: they may have originally been built stone walls up to 3.20 m (10.5 ft.) thick. There are some boulders on edge at the east end of the outer face of the outer bank, which may be part of it. The broch itself shows few of its structural features though the mound is still 4.12 m (13.5 ft.) high, and on the north-west several course of the inner face can be seen. Hibbert noted several "cavities" in the wall which must have been mural cells; each was about 3.66 m (12 ft.) long by 1.83 m (6 ft.) broad. Traces of one can be seen on the south-west. The wall of the broch seems to be about 4.58-5.19 m (15-17 ft.) thick.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 54 SW 8: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1085, 3-4 and fig. 480 (plate): 3. Hibbert 1822, 284.
E W MacKie 2002
