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Orkney Smr Note
Date 1980
Event ID 619129
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619129
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
