Archaeology Notes

Event ID 640922

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP40NE 1 4849 0615

Formerly also entered in error as HP32NW 1.

(HP 4849 0615) Brough (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).

The structures on this site were described as being like little houses with a drain at the bottom, by Thomas Irvine of Midbrake, who robbed them to build the wall across the neck of the island.

T Irvine 1897

No boat being available, the site could not be inspected, but the language that Irvine uses suggests that the remains are those of a fish 'skeo' rather than a broch.

RCAHMS 1946

Not visited. Inaccessible at time because of rough sea conditions.

Visited by OS 11 May 1969