Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585390
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585390
HY21 11 STACKRUE (‘Staker-row’, ‘Lyking’)
HY/27051512
Probable broch in Sandwick, the south half of which was cut away when the road was made, some time before 1881 [4, 166]; two sections of the wall were visible in 1928 and indicated an internal diameter of 9.2 m (30 ft.) and wall thickness of at least 4.0 m (13 ft.); the wall proportion would thus be at least 47%. The outer wall face shows the usual batter. A corbelled cell about 0.0 m (5 ft. 6 in.) high is sunk into the interior floor of the broch with a short flight of steps leading down into it; it may have been a well.
Finds: when the broch was damaged a rune-inscribed sandstone disc of the Viking period was recovered [4, fig. 61]; a stone whorl is also reported [5, 88].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 21 NE 9: 2. Fraser 1924, 25: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 677, 252: 4. Olsen 1954, 166-9: 5. Hedges et al. 1987, 87-8: 6. Cursiter 1923, 50 no. 32, 52.
E W MacKie 2002
