Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644459

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY41NW 6 4258 1998

(HY 4256 1998) Knowe of Dishero (NR)

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

The remains of this broch are about 30ft in diameter internally. Part of the inner wall-face, 19 ft 6 ins long and about 4ft 6 ins high, is still visible on the west and incorporates an opening over 2ft 6 ins wide, recently built up, which probably gave access to a mural cell or gallery.

To the east there are slight traces of an enclosing wall with a wide ditch beyond it. A fragment of a shale armlet from this site is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1926-7 (Donations); RCAHMS 1946.

Knowe of Dishero, a broch, is as described by the Commission.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL), 13 June 1967.