Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585451
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HY30 1 HILLOCK OF BRECKNA
HY/353051
Possible broch in Orphir, consisting a hillock some 1.8 m (6 ft.) high on the shore of Swanbister Bay, on a small peninsula. Scanty traces of a ruined building can be seen below the turf, including a length of curved inner wall face and a possible fragment of a corresponding outer one.
Sources: 1. OS card HY 30 NE 13: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 486, 175-6: 3. Old Statistical Account, xix, 417.
E W MacKie 2002
