Orkney Smr Note
Date July 1984
Event ID 619449
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
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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.