Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 586025
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586025
HY73 2 WASSO ('Wasshow', 'Wassa')
HY/70923794
Probable broch in Lady parish on Sanday, standing on the long promontory of Tresness. Now a grass-grown mound about 4.58 m (15 ft.) high it was James Farrer [2], not Sir H Dryden [4], who explored the mound in 1868; Dryden's sketch plan, made from Petries' notes, survives as the only record [2, fig. 256]. This shows the NE quarter of the inner face of what looks like a broch, with a number of stone slabs set upright in the enclosed floor close to it; some of these are shown with a height of 4.12 m (13 ft. 6 in.). The information about the size of the structures does not seem reliable [4].
One pointed bone implement, a stone whorl and some potsherds from the site are in the National Museum in Edinburgh.
Sources: 1. OS card HY 73 NW 2: 2. Petrie 1890, 94: 3. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 166, no. 438 and fig. 256: 4. Hedges et al. 1987, 118-19: Lamb 1980, 16.
E W MacKie 2002
