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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645921
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645921
HY62NE 6 6534 2754
(HY 6534 2754) Erd House (NR)
(Site of) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
The site of a broch which was partly excavated by Petrie on 27th July 1863, (Information from G Petrie Mss notebook No.7 in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS]) who exposed the entrance passage, with doorchecks, through a 13'6" thick wall. A local resident, who visited the site soon after Petrie, stated that the passage was completely cleared but that he gained admission to a single chamber. He also reported that cockle-shells, bones and food-refuse were constantly being turned up on the knoll outside, which was doubtless a kitchen-midden, but he had heard of no artifacts, although a spindle- whorl is known to have been ploughed up. The site was under cultivation in 1928, and no trace remained on the surface.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
No trace on a rise in a pasture field. The farmer reports that shells are still turned up when the field is ploughed.
Visited by OS (RL), 13 July 1970.
A slight rise in an arable field is the only surface indication of the spot where Petrie explored a broch in 1863.
RCAHMS 1984, visited June 1979.
