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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645096
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645096
HY33SE 11 3704 3074.
(HY 3704 3074) North Howe (NR).
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
On elevated ground about 100 yds from the rocky and precipitous coastline, is a large unexplored site of somewhat indefinite character. Heaps of stones, overgrown with grass, suggest a circular structure surrounded by "outbuildings", possibly a broch. The whole site has been pillaged for material for dry-stone dykes.
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.
North Howe, the scant remains of a broch marked by a grassy mound c.17.0m in diameter and 2.5m maximum height, with traces of the outer wall face visible for a length of about 12.0m around the NW arc. There are no definite traces of outbuildings but the uneven ground in the vicinity is suggestive of a secondary settlement.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 11 October 1972.
