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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 641946
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641946
HU31SE 14 3833 1384
(HU 3832 1385) Old House of Brow (NAT)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)
A pile of stones, the site of either the old house of the Sinclairs of Quendale or of the hamlet of Brow. Not an antiquity.
Name Book 1878
A broch.
(A Rae orally informed OS on 27 November 1966)
All that can be seen of the Old House of Brow is a sandy knoll, with a covering of bent grass, one of several hundred similar knolls in the area. No evidence to suggest a broch.
Visited by OS(NKB) 23 April 1968.
