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Rousay, Scock Ness

Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Prehistoric)

Site Name Rousay, Scock Ness

Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 2698

Site Number HY43SE 2

NGR HY 4526 3214

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Rousay And Egilsay
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY43SE 2 4526 3214.

(HY 4526 3214) Brough (NR)

OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1903).

No actual structure is visible.

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.

Applies to an old underground house inhabited by the Picts.

Name Book 1880.

Only the S half of this structure survives, marked by a turf-covered hollowed stony mound measuring 12.5m E-W by 8.0m transversely. It is too small to be a broch, and the size and regularity of the surviving portion suggests that it has been a cairn.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS(AA) 17 October 1972.

(HY 4526 3214) Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 1982.

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Field Visit (August 1979)

Scockness HY 4526 3215 HY43SE 2

On the stabilised spit at the S extremity of Scockness, and cut into by erosion on its N and W sides, is a mound 1m to 1.3m high and with a maximum diameter of 12.5m. The erosion reveals a make-up of gravel and small stones which show no signs of burning. This is too small to contain a broch, and it is unclear whether this is a funerary structure or the remains of a settlement site.

RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1979

(Name Book, Orkney, No. 16, p. 94; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 227, No. 606; OR 483)

Publication Account (2002)

HY43 2 SCOCKNESS 2

c.HY/454323

Site of a possible broch on Rousay I., but no structure is now visible.

Sources: 1. OS card HY 43 SE 2: 2. RCAHMS 1946, 2, no. 606.

E W MacKie 2002

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