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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585700
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585700
HY62 2 HUNTON
HY65342754
The site of a probable broch on Stronsay situated on rising ground; only a slight rise in the field betrays its position [5]. In 1863, after a plough had exposed an underground chamber, a small excavation was carried out by Farrer and Petrie and the entrance passage of a broch revealed [2, fig. 425]. The trenches were filled in and there were no finds apart from a spindle whorl. A sketch of the entrance area survives [4, fig. 3.30]. Midden material is frequently exposed on the site [1].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 62 NE 6: 2. Petrie 1890, 92: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 333-34, no. 980 and fig. 425: 4. Hedges et al. 1987, 124-26: 5. Lamb 1984, 24.
E W MacKie 2002
