Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 586028
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586028
HY74 3 PETERKIRK
HY/714436
Possible broch in Lady parish on Sanday. The chapel is reputed to have been built on a prehistoric site and midden material has been exposed along the beach nearby. There is also a dry stone well close by, with a stair leading into it, which was cleared out in the late 1960s [1].
Finds: in the Cursiter collection in the Hunterian Museum are several finds from 'Peter Kirk' which should be from this broch (all B.1914.). They include a bone die (with spots of simple dots instead of dot-and-circle motifs -- 807/2), a possible unfinished and plain large bone die (807/1) and a bone double-sided composite comb (806),
Sources: 1. OS card HY 74 SW 7: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, 171, no. 460: 3. Lamb 1980, no. 181.
E W MacKie 2002
