Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641237

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU33SE 7 3789 3494

( HU 3788 3497 ) Brough (O.E.) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)

A rugged, grass-grown hillock, in a commanding position, the site of a broch.

Although no characteristic features are discernible, there are slight indications of regularly laid stone-work here and there, particularly in the neighbourhood of the cottage which encroaches on the site. The pier at Scalloway is said to have been built with stones from this broch. (Anderson 1873).

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930

As described; no further information.

Visited by OS(AA) 15 May 1968

See also HU33SE 43

Putative broch site to the south of croft; the croft buildings encroach on a large grassed mound some 2.5m high.

J W Hedges 1984

M108 (site G1).