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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 585703
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/585703
HY63 1 BACKASKAILL
HY64173919
Probable broch in Cross and Burness on Sanday I., situated on a rocky outcrop close to the shore. Part of the outer wall face was seen by Petrie who noted that it had a considerable batter [3]. A drain apparently led down from the building on the outcrop into a corbelled chamber at its base, now destroyed. The site is defended by a flat-bottomed ditch and in the late 1970s a sea-eroded long section in the cliff face showed walls and floors comprising a deposit up to 3 m thick [3].
Sources: 1. OS card HY 63 NW 1: 2. Proc Ork Antiq Soc 1, 52: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 159, 40 and fig. 87: 3. Lamb 1980, 15.
E W MacKie 2002
