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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585558
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585558
HY33 3 SOUTH HOWE ('Westside', 'Broch' or 'Brough')
HY/37273036
Probable broch in Rousay. About 500 m south-east of Midhowe, and also on the coast, are the scanty remains of a stone building in which traces of the inner and outer face of a curved wall, exposed by the sea, are visible on the west arc [1]; these indicate wall thicknesses in two places of 3.9 and 4.2 m. An intra-mural gallery 1.2 m wide is also visible for a length of 2 m; the north side of an entrance to it from the interior can be seen, standing to a height of 1.7 m. [1, 3]. There are traces of outbuildings to the N. Hedges points out that no dimensions were obtained by previous visitors from the exposed section.
A long-handled bone comb of Iron Age type is reported to have been found on the site (and to be in private hands) [2], as has a potsherd, possibly also of the same period [3].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 33 SE 10: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 552, 193: 3. Hedges et al. 1987, 117-18: 4. Lamb 1982, 22.
E W MacKie 2002
