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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585697
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585697
HY52 2 NESS OF ORK ('The Hillock')
HY/53562238
Possible broch on Shapinsay consisting of a turf-covered mound of sand apparently covering a building a third of which has been swept away by the sea. A short arc of the inner wall face may be visible [4] and there are suggestions that the wall was about 3.66 m (12 ft.) thick; the overall diameter was estimated at c. 17.7 m. Traces of earlier explorations were noted, one of which had uncovered cists and graves to the north of the broch [3].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 52 SW 2: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 275, no. 777: 3. Hedges et al. 1987, 121-22: 4. Lamb 1987, 11.
E W MacKie 2002
