Noonsbrough
Broch (Iron Age)
Site Name Noonsbrough
Classification Broch (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Voe Of Clousta
Canmore ID 372
Site Number HU25NE 5
NGR HU 29536 57687
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/372
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Sandsting
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
Field Visit (14 July 1931)
Broch, Nounsbrough, Voe of Clousta.
On a low point on the W. side of the outer part of the Voe of Clousta, at Nounsbrough, is a grass-covered mound of debris, which represents a broch. On the W. arc the outer face of the wall, built of large stones, is still visible, standing 3 ft. high. The over-all diameter has probably been about 60 ft.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 14 July 1931.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
Field Visit (13 June 1968)
HU25NE 5 2953 5769.
(HU 2952 5770) Brough (OE)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903)
A broch, c.19.0m in diameter, as described by the RCAHMS The footings of the outer wall face are visible for the greater part of its circumference.
Re-surveyed at 1.2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 13 June 1968
Publication Account (2002)
HU25 7 NOUNSBOROUGH (‘Voe of Clousta’)
HU/295577
Possible broch in Sandsting, in the form of a grass-grown mound of debris with an arc of the outer wall, 3 ft. high, visible on the west [2]. The footings of this wall can be traced most of the way round [1].
Sources: 1. OS card HU 25 NE 5: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1394, 101.
E W MacKie 2002
