Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644273

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY31SE 5 3903 1277.

(HY 3903 1277) Brough (NR).

This broch has been so mutilated by excavation and by the encroachment of the sea that precise measurements are now unobtainable but, when excavated (J Anderson 1888) its external diameter was 60 ft, its internal diameter 33 ft, and the wall-thickness 13 1/2 ft. The doorway with guard-chamber was on the SW and, in a part of the wall that stood 12 ft high, a section of the gallery survived. Human remains and red deer bones were found.(G Petrie 1927; J Fraser 1927).

In the bank adjoining the beach are traces of a scattered kitchen-midden.

RCAHMS 1946.

The turf-covered remains of a broch, as described above. There is no trace of the midden noted by the Commission.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(NKB) 22 April 1966.

'The Orcadian' newspaper describes the excavations carried out at this site in the late 1850s.