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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 641809
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641809
HU34SE 4 3881 4057.
(HU 3881 4056) Brough (OE) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)
'There has certainly been a building of some sort on this island but it has been so completely destroyed that its diameter is no longer recognisable. Present appearances, however, are such as to suggest that the broch, if it ever existed, had been replaced by a later and much smaller structure now almost ruinous.
Nor is it at all certain that there has been a causeway connecting the island with the shore as is sometimes asserted, the stones are scattered and loose and may possibly have been thrown up by winter storms. There is a story that the structure, whatever it may have been, was plundered many years ago for building materials.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1933
No trace and no further information.
Visited by OS (RL) 4 May 1968
