Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585471
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585471
HY31 6 FINSTOWN ('The Hillock' or 'Oyce')
HY/361142
A possible broch in Firth, consisting of an extensive grass-grown mound containing structures of some kind. Part of a circular wall 4.9 m (16 ft.) was exposed many years ago [3] during road construction. Two fragments of pottery and a boar's tusk were picked up in 1928 [4].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 31 SE 4: 2. G. Petrie 1890, 92: 3. G. Petrie 1927, 52: 4. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 323, 92.
E W MacKie 2002
