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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 646285
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/646285
HY52SW 2 5356 2238.
(HY 5356 2238) The Hillock (NR)
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
Close to the beach at the extreme N end of the island an extensive mound of blown sand, overgrown with turf, covers the remains of a broch, one-third of which has been swept away by the sea. Two tentative explorations have proved that the wall was some 12ft thick and the overall diameter was c.58ft.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
"The Hillock" - an amorphous turf-covered mound covering the remains of a broch of which all that can be seen is 1.0m of what is probably the SW arc of the inner face. There are vague traces of walling extending to the S along the shore line.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 2 October 1972
Immediately S of the termination of the public road at the NE extremity of Shapinsay, there is a grass-grown sandy mound which conceals a broch, now partly eroded by the sea. The only exposed features are a short arc of what is probably the inner wall-face and some other fragments of masonry in the shoreline.
RCAHMS 1946; 1987, visited July 1984
