Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642288

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU41NW 3 4155 1970

(HU 4152 1970) Brough (NR)

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

A broch, with an overall diameter of 54' 6" and a wall thickness of from 12' to 16', into the courtyard of which a wheelhouse has been inserted. It was excavated by Goudie in 1869. Traces of outbuildings and ill-defined, though massive, "circumvallations." Goudie also did a partial excavation of "The Giants' Graves" three or more long mounds which lay adjacent to the broch on the SW, and which he compared to the horned cairns of Caithness. RCAHMS could not identify the mounds.

G Goudie 1873; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930; J R R Hamilton 1962.

A greatly dilapidated broch surrounded by outworks comprising two concentric stone walls mutilated by sheepfolds. The outworks are 'The Giants' Graves' excavated by Goudie. The broch contains a secondary wheelhouse and is surrounded by secondary buildings.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL), 17 May 1968.