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Heglibister
Broch (Iron Age)
Site Name Heglibister
Classification Broch (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Nesta Ness
Canmore ID 747
Site Number HU35SE 3
NGR HU 3888 5155
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/747
- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Tingwall
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU35SE 3 3888 5155.
(HU 3886 5155 ) Tumulus (O.E.)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).
A large and conspicuous natural knoll the top of which has been utilised as the site of a probable broch, now represented by an oval mound about 10' high. Its present outline is probably due to robbing, and no definite measurements can be given. While the character of the mound is concealed beneath a covering of coarse grass, it is significant that a near-by kitchen-midden yielded typical pounders or hammer-stones. It lay beneath one of the out-houses adjoining the neighbouring dwelling-house and apparently extended for some distance into the garden.
The local name for the hillock is de Duss' (meaning the heap of stones') or 'de Dun'.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930.
The amorphous remains of a broch as described by the RCAHM. The only broch-like features are occasional well-formed stones protruding through the turf, but the form of the mound and the situation on a rocky knoll leave no doubt that it is a broch.
Visted by OS (NKB) 4 June 1968.
Scheduled as Heglibister, cairn.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 21 August 1995.
Publication Account (2002)
HU35 2 HEGLIBISTER 1
HU/389516
A possible broch in Tingwall. On top of a large natural knoll are the remains of a building in a grassy mound. The shape and form of the mound suggest a broch [1] and hammer stones were found in a nearby midden.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 35 SE 3: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1501, 120-1.
E W MacKie 2002
