Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643721

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU59SE 1 5780 9334.

(HU 5780 9334) S na Brough (OE) (Site of)

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

Sna Broch: A series of ramparts and ditches, evidently the defences of a broch which has been swept away by the sea.

The ramparts are still on average 6' to 7' high, and are spread at base from 12' to 13'.They have apparently been partly faced with stone, although the masonry is nowhere visible for more than two courses.

A well in the outer ditch, opposite a break in the inner rampart, is no longer visible but is noted by both Hibbert and Low.(From descriptions by G Low 1774 and S Hibbert 1822).

Abraded hammer-stones and fragments of broch- pottery were picked up at the time of visit.

The mound which lies outside the defences to the south is of indefinite character and its relationship to the larger construction is not clear.

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.

Sna Brough, as described and planned by the RCAHM.

Visited by OS(NKB) 15th May 1969.