Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641988

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU27NE 13 2811 7700

See also HU27NE 21.

(HU 2811 7700) Brough (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1900)

The site of a broch of which nothing remains because, in the 16th c, the site was fenced around and flattened and a new parish church built on it, the enclosure being used as a burial ground. This church was in use until about 1870, when a new church was built on a different site (HU 2830 7712). The burial ground is still in use and stones from the broch are found in digging graves. Nothing remains of the old church.

The broch appears to have had a moat surrounding it as there is a small loch close by and the enclosed ground is a good deal high than the surrounding ground. (Name Book 1878)

Statistical Account (OSA) 1794 (Rev W Jack)

No trace and no local knowledge of a broch here. Occasional dressed stones from the church, demolished c 1870, have been found during grave-digging. The graveyard is still used.

Visited by OS (NKB) 25 April 1969