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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641303

HU36NW 10 3365 6918.

( HU 3366 6923 ) Site of Brough (O.E.)

Human remains found AD 1849. The site of a broch, heavily robbed to build the neighbouring farmhouse in 1849, when human remains were found.

Name Book 1878.

No stonework is now visible, but the outline can be traced on the turf, and has an over-all diameter of 58'.

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.

L.G. Scott of Lerwick found a stone, incised with an apparently Pictish figure of a bird in flight, on the site.

C S T Calder 1956.

There are no traces of this broch visible on the ground. The incised stone is now in Lerwick Museum, and is not a Pictish symbol stone as such, but similar to HU30NE 3, a piece of sandstone inscribed with a bird, probably Viking.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 27th May 1968.

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