Field Visit

Date September 1980

Event ID 619059

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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This is a very extensive site indeed. Broch mound generally as described, but the broad platform-mound from which it rises continues W into the next field (where it is left rough as unploughable) where it extends some 70m from the field-wall. General height of platform above surroundings is some 1.5m. It is hummocky and quarried but there are copious exposures of walling indicating a great complex of subsidiary buildings. At extreme W the area is bounded by a curving ditch 2.2m deep and 3-4m wide, possibly accentuated by quarrying. On its inner lip is a stone wall suggestive of a fortified enclosure. Some stonework also appears W of the ditch where there may be an outer wall. Some exposure of this in the shore banks but in general these are grassed and sea erosion seems not to be active.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 80.