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Old House Of Brow
Structure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Old House Of Brow
Classification Structure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 548
Site Number HU31SE 14
NGR HU 3833 1384
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/548
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Dunrossness
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU31SE 14 3833 1384
(HU 3832 1385) Old House of Brow (NAT)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)
A pile of stones, the site of either the old house of the Sinclairs of Quendale or of the hamlet of Brow. Not an antiquity.
Name Book 1878
A broch.
(A Rae orally informed OS on 27 November 1966)
All that can be seen of the Old House of Brow is a sandy knoll, with a covering of bent grass, one of several hundred similar knolls in the area. No evidence to suggest a broch.
Visited by OS(NKB) 23 April 1968.
Publication Account (2002)
HU31 3 OLD HOUSE OF BROW
HU/383139
Possible broch in Dunrossness, a sandy knoll which once showed stones; there are conflicting views as to whether it is likely to be a broch site, or even an antiquity [1].
Source: 1. OS card HU 31 SE 14.
E W MacKie 2002
