Excavation

Date 1981

Event ID 605934

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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In 1981 further excavation confirmed the presence of a possible chambered tomb, associated with a hornwork bank with an outer ditch, or overlying it. There appear to be 3 side cells off the main chamber which was entered by a passage 7m long with steps down to the main chamber.

At a later stage the centre of the tomb mound was cut away to ground level, and levelled with clay over the chambers which were re-roofed and used as a souterrain for the round house (with radial partitions) which was built over the tomb. The tomb passage was used as a drain.

Directly over all this was built the 2-phased broch, excavated in 1979-80.

Finds included a fibula, gilded bronze needle, pottery, and skeletal remains.

B Bell and D Haigh 1981.