Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585387
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585387
HY21 8 KNOWE OF REDLAND ('Arion', ‘Broch of Arion’)
HY 26591385
Site of probable broch in Stromness, excavated by Farrer and Petrie in 1866 [1]. There is nothing left to see now [3, 1].
A circular wall was found “built of large square stones and of great thickness and strength, and about 50 ft. (15.25 m) in diameter.” An entrance was found on the E. Near the centre of the court was found a rock-cut well, containing water and entered by a spiral stone stair which descended 20 ft. (6.1 m). Many ashes and bones were found in the building.
Stone finds include a pecked ‘handle hammer’, an oval holed stone and a possible macehead.
Sources: 1. OS card HY 21 SE 32: 2. Anderson 1890, 94: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, nos. 939 and 942, 327: 4. Hedges et al. 1987, 93-4).
E W MacKie 2002
