Archaeology Notes

Event ID 860852

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY44SE 11 4963 4171.

A S-facing exposure produced a variety of domestic midden finds, including a bird beak and other bird bone, pot-boiler fragments, animal bone including one fragment with butchery markings, whale and cod bone, and limpet and periwinkle shell. The bird and butchered bone were deposited in Tankerness House Museum (THM 1990.100). No structural features were apparent. The finds, while not diagnostic, are typical of Early Iron Age settlement remains, this with the size of the mound strongly suggests a probable large broch site.

D Lynn and B Bell 1990.