Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644276

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY31NW 38 3232 1741.

(HY 3232 1741) Brough (NR)

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

The remains of a broch, situated on low ground about 200yds S. of Harray Manse, which were investigated by the minister, the Rev. Dr Trail, many years before 1929. (G Petrie). It measured from 33ft to 33ft 6 ins internal diameter, with walls 12ft thick and 6ft 6 ins high, at the west arc. The entrance, now obliterated, was in the east, and there were three mural cells, of which only one remains, in the west. Within the broch is a rock-cut well, choked with debris, and fragments of walling, probably of a later occupation.

A rough stone wall, 3ft thick, surrounded the broch at a distance of 3ft: another wall and a number of small cells occurred outside the broch on the east side. Finds include a human skull within the broch and two large rude fire-baked clay urns with triangular stone covers found outside the south wall of the broch.

RCAHMS 1946.

The remains of a broch, generally as described by the Commission. Only the west arc of the broch-walling, containing part of a mural cell at its south end, and the choked well remain: all trace of the walling in the centre, the wall surrounding the broch, and the outworks on the east side, have disappeared. The present whereabouts of the finds cannot be ascertained.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 15 June 1966.

Scheduled as Nettletar, broch.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 2 December 1999.