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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655508

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND39SW 1 3148 9095

Not to be confused with HY20SW 7.

(ND 3148 9095) Green Hill (OE)

OS 6" map (1900)

The turf-covered mound rises to 7ft 9ins on the southern, landward, side, and to 30ft on the north side, the diff- erence being due to the slope of the ground. It contains the remains of a structure which may be a broch, from the general appearance of the site and the slight surface indications.

The remains cover an area of almost half an acre and seem to have been disturbed by random unrecorded excavations. There have been outbuildings to the east and south- east of the main work and along the high bank, above the shore, and on which lies a small kitchen-midden shell deposit.

RCAHMS 1946

Green Hill, the remains of a probable broch and outbuildings, as described by the Commission.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 16 June 1967

Scheduled as 'Greenhill Broch, South Walls, Orkney... a tall, extensive, grass-covered mound on the northern shore of South Walls'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 June 2004.

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