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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642315
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642315
HU41NW 4 4045 1811.
(HU 4043 1812) Brough (OE)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
A broch, with later internal walling, which was part- ially excavted by Goudie in 1887, (G Goudie 1904) who also restored part of the walling. The overall diameter is 68' with a wall thickness of 17'-18'. The finding of a carefully constructed cist luted with clay and containing 'unctuous' matter, 2 1/2' above the floor of the broch led Goudie to the belief that the floor of the broch led Goudie to the belief that the structure had been used for interment after its collapse.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930 and 1934.
Broch, generally as described and planned. There is slight evidence of secondary buildings in the vicinity of the broch. No trace of the cist found by Goudie.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 18th May 1968.
