Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641439

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HP50NW 3 5312 0531.

(HP 5312 0532) Brough (NR) (Site of).

OS 6" map, Shetland, (1900).

'Some stones and rubbish overgrown with grass, situated on a conspicuous elevation on the brink of a precipice. It is said that the greatest portion of the building has fallen over the cliff.'

Name Book 1878

The OS designation may be accepted.

RCAHMS 1946

Apart from very slight traces of walling in the cliff face, this broch has gone.

Visited by OS (RL) 10 May 1969

Field survey and excavation, as a response to continual wind and marine erosion, was carried out at the Sands of Breckon between 1982 and 1983 (HP50NW 1.01 & HP50NW 11.01). The field survey area was over 20ha in extent, and 42 sites of archaeological interest were recognised. The field survey found no evidence to suggest the site is a broch, and interprets the site as a stone spread.

Historic Scotland Archive Project (SW) 2002.