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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641841

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641841

HU25SE 4 2746 5032.

(HU 2746 5035) Brough (OE) (Site of)

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

The foundations of a broch on top of a knoll. On the south and SE the line of the outer face of the wall is sufficiently distinct to justify an estimate of approximately 61' for the over-all diameter. Dwelling- houses encroach upon the north portion of the site.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.

The remains of a broch as described by the RCAHM.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(NKB) 16th June 1968.

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