Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643061

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU58SW 1 5337 8329.

(HU 5340 8330) Brough (LB)

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

A broch, now almost completely destroyed. The conspicuous, rocky site, though only 50' above sea level, is one of considerable natural strength, amid cultivated land. Slight traces of the foundations of the main wall can be detected here and there, and these point to an overall diameter of about 57'. On the NE there are indefinite indications which suggest outbuildings of considerable extent.

Irvine (J T Irvine) records that in 1866 chambers were still visible among the remains and there are said to have been graves hard by.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.

A broch mound in which the wall face is only visible on the W side, rendering accurate measurement impossible. Disturbed ground to the E of the broch indicates the former existence of outbuildings now overlaid by the footings of a late rectangular building.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited By OS (NKB) 12th May 1969.