Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585679
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585679
HY50 3 DEERNESS CHURCH
HY/589063
Possible broch in Deerness, close to the sea shore south of the churchyard at Skaill, and appearing as a grass-grown hillock. Some potsherds of Iron Age type were found in 1928, in a thin dark layer exposed nearby at the shore [2], and two blocks of sandstone (one with a cup-mark and one with an incised design) may have come from this site [2]. In 1943 six sherds of reddish Iron Age pottery “with linear patterns” were found probably at this site (“at a broch at Deerness”) [4].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 50 NE 21: 2. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-66), 42 (finds): 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 629, 243-44: 4. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 80 (1945-46), 152 (pottery): 5. OS card HY 50 NE 24 (pottery).
E W MacKie 2002
