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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647546
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647546
HY74SE 2 7724 4340.
(HY 7724 4340) Pict's House (NR)
(Site of) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 1st ed., (1879).
The fragmentary remains of a broch, 50' to 60' overall. Most of it has been eroded by the sea, but a section of the foundation still survives on the north side. The walls have been 13' thick and at one place the curve of the inner face still remains to a height of about 3'.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
The remains of a broch surmounted by a sea-marker cairn as described by the RCAHMS.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 12 July 1970.
