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Orkney Smr Note

Date July 1984

Event ID 619449

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619449

The two inward-facing wall-faces recorded by OS are the

inner face of the broch wall below and above a scarcement 0.6m

wide. At the central point of the surviving arc there seems to

be an alcove set back into the wall at scarcement level, possibly

the access to a gallery or stair. the edge-slab mentioned by OS

has gone and the site has suffered severely in the SE hurricane

of February 1984. There are traces of outbuildings on the W side

where an edge-slab is exposed in the shoreline. There is a

much-truncated naust built against the W edge of the mound. On

the E side of the surviving arc, the broch's main wall is cut by

a secondary curved wall indicating that the broch tower must have

been substantially dismantled when this was built. E from here

outside the broch is exposed a solid paved floor, laid directly

on natural clay and with rubble above it.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jul 84.

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