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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643749
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643749
HU59SE 4 5806 9265.
(HU 5806 9266) Tower of Site of (T.I.) Brough (OE)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The probable site of a broch, occupied by a modern tower.
Low records that the broch was 'situate on the top of a small hill; the walls entirely in ruins; without any outworks as its situation did not require them'. He adds 'near this last in a mass were found, wrapt in a raw hide, six pieces of cast brass of a very singular figure, the workmanship fine, seemingly designed for fetters. Three of them were jointed, the other three whole.'(G A Low 1879)
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.
Wilson describes and illustrates a stone basin 12" x 8 1/2, with handles, which was found within the area of a 'PECH'S BURGH' at Brough,in Shetland. This may be a reference to this site.
D Wilson 1863
There are no remains of this broch, A low circular bank around the summit of the hillock, within which the modern tower is built does not appear to be part of the broch structure.
Visited by OS (NKB) 15th May 1969.
