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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645095
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645095
HY33SE 10 3727 3037.
(HY 3726 3036) Brough (NR)
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
The remains of a probable broch situated on the edge of the low, rocky coastline on the N side of Eynhallow Sound. Some broken fragments of masonry on the shore-side suggest a wall thickness of at least 10 1/2, or possibly 15 ft. Kitchen refuse from the nearby deserted farmhouse is inextricably mixed with the remains. A whalebone weaving-comb, found on the site is now in private possession.
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.
The scant remains of a broch marked by a slight rise. In the shoreline the W arc is visible with traces of the inner and outer faces giving a wall thickness at two places of 3.9 and 4.2 m. The N side of an entrance to a gallery is preserved to a height of 1.7 m, and the gallery to the S of it is visible for a length of some 2.0 m and is 1.2 m wide. Outside the broch to the N are traces of other dry built structures, probably part of a secondary settlement.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 10 October 1972.
(HY 3726 3036) Broch (NR) (remains of)
OS 25"map, 1976.
