Orkney Smr Note

Date 1980

Event ID 619129

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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Excavated 1857 by Farrer. Petrie writing two years later

describes in detail the broch entrance-passage, which had an

aperture in the side paralleled only at Hoxa, S Ronaldsay. [R1]

Anderson gives dimensions as external diameter 60ft,

internal 33ft, wall thickness 13.5ft. [R2]

Much damaged by excavations and sea erosion. In the bank

adjoining the broch are traces of a scattered kitchen-midden

deposit. [R3]

Outline sketch-plan, ink. Petrie sketchbook no 3 SAS 487,

in RMS.

Turfed remains of broch as described. No trace of midden

noted by RCAMS. OS visit April 66.

No trace of midden. Dense-packed stonework including walls,

exposed on a 40m front around end of headland; erosion quite

rapid. Stonework appears to be founded directly on the glacial

clay.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jul 80.

In October 1980 a group of Kirkwall Grammar School boys

reported further erosion and picked up a spindle-whorl, an

unfinished stone sinker, a large lump of iron dross from the

bottom of a bloomery, and a piece of bloomery slag. These were

deposited in Tankerness House Museum.

Information from Orkney SMR 1980