North Gluss
Broch (Iron Age)
Site Name North Gluss
Classification Broch (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Burgan
Canmore ID 813
Site Number HU37NW 2
NGR HU 3437 7746
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Northmavine
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Shetland
- Former County Shetland
HU37NW 2 3437 7746.
( HU 3440 7747 ) Brough (O.E.)
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).
What has apparently been a broch, standing on a prominent hillock, has been demolished, and nothing from which measurements can be taken is now discernible. In the National Museum of Antiquties of Scotland (NMAS) are two oval polished knives of dark porphyritic stone which were both found in clearing out the foundations of an ancient structure, said to have been a broch, at Gluss (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1908), (Neighbouring name 'Burgan' may be relevant).
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1931.
Locally known to have been a broch.
Name Book 1878.
An area of disturbed stony ground in which there are no intelligble remains of a broch.
Visited by OS(NKB) 25th May 1969.
Field Visit (10 August 1931)
Broch, Burgan, North Gluss.
On a prominent hillock a quarter of a mile to the W of North Gluss, and at an elevation of 300 ft above sea-level, there has apparently been a broch. The structure has, however, been demolished, and nothing from which measurements can be taken is now discernible. In the National Museum are two oval polished knives of dark porphyritic stone which were “both found in clearing out the foundations of an ancient structure, supposed to be a Broch, at Gluss” (1).
RCAHMS 1946,visited 10 August 1931.
(1) PSAS, xlii (1907-8), p. 163.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).
Publication Account (2002)
HU37 1 BURGAN ('North Gluss')
HU/344775
Possible broch in Northmavine. The remains, on a prominent hillock are now unintelligible but are thought locally to have been a broch. There is a description [3] of the discovery of an oval, polished stone knife during the clearing out of the foundations of a possible broch at Gluss.
Sources: OS card HU 37 NW 2: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1396, 98-9: 3. P.S.A.S. 42 (1907-08), 163.
E W MacKie 2002
