Orkney Smr Note

Date May 1979

Event ID 614218

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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Broch and outbuildings excavated 1901. [R1]

Broch cleared to floor level, inner face visible for height of 4ft 6in, outbuildings fragmentary and incoherent. [R2]

Tigh Talamhanta report includes discussion of chevron-incised pottery. [R3]

Discussion of bone dice. [R4]

External walls standing max. ht. 1.3m, inner wall fragmentary, internal detail no longer visible. Only sign of

possible external buildings is vague traces of drystone wallingin two excavation trenches. OS visit Aug 64.

As described by OS.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) May 1979.