Archaeology Notes

Event ID 738140

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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Mann and Curle note the discovery of a small terra-cotta votive offering in the form of a model of a bale of hides or fleeces at the broch and suggest that it was probably brought by a trader from the south during the Roman period, as the local population did not use terra-cotta.