Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642152

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU41NW 1.00 4075 1567

(HU 4075 1567) Brough (OE)

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

HU41NW 1.01 4074 1571 Farmstead; Head-dyke

A broch, almost entirely demolished, the site being remarkable for its surrounding defences, as well as for the extent of the area occupied by associated outbuildings. The defences, now best defined on the east, consist of two concentric ramparts separated by a wide ditch and, respectively, 26' and 53' distant from the broch. They are composed mainly of earth, and rise 4'6" to 5' above the bottom of the ditch. The outer one measures from 12' to 15' wide at the base, but the base of the inner one is obscured on the inside by debris from the broch, much of which has been robbed for sheepfolds. Two wells lie just outside the defences.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.

A broch generally as described by RCAHMS. Traces of outbuildings surrounding the broch are too amorphous for survey action. One of the wells lies to the N but the other could not be located.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 18th May 1968.