Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642898

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU44NE 3 4612 4892

(HU 4612 4896) Brough (OE) (Site of)

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

A conical mound rising steeply to a height of more than 18' and marking the site of a broch of which the only visible structural remains are a single course of masonry, sufficient however to demonstrate and overall diameter of 55ft. There appears to have been a narrow opening in the wall towards the NE.

Many stones have apparently been removed from the broch and utilised for building the adjacent dykes and sheepfolds.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.

Remains of a broch generally as described by RCAHMS. The interior is a mass of debris.

Visited by OS (RL), 3 May 1968.