Sanday, Breahowar
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Sanday, Breahowar
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Braehawar; Laminess
Canmore ID 3437
Site Number HY63NW 30
NGR HY 6200 3738
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3437
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Note (1980)
Braehowar, Sanday HY 6200 3738 HY63NW
Local report that a 'brough' was dug through during road-building at, or very near, the junction with the road to Lambaness.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 339)
Publication Account (2002)
HY63 2 BRAEHOWAR
HY620374
Site of possible broch in Cross and Burness on Sanday I.; it is supposed to have been dug through during road building.
Sources: OS card HY 63 NW 30: 2. Lamb 1980, 15.
E W MacKie 2002
Orkney Smr Note
A brough was dug through during construction of the road,
at or very near the junction with the road to Lambaness.
Inf K Foubister, Kettletoft P O, Jun 79.
Told by Mr Anderson Excise Officer in Sanday that the
labourers who are now forming a new road at the south end of
Sanday have cut through what appears to be the remains of a
village near the old harbour of Pool. 31 May 1867.
G Petrie Notebook 9, p 36.
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
