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Sanday, 'broch Of Lambaness'
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Comb (Bone), Pin, Quern(S), Spindle Whorl, Vessel(S) (Stone)
Site Name Sanday, 'broch Of Lambaness'
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Comb (Bone), Pin, Quern(S), Spindle Whorl, Vessel(S) (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Lamba Ness
Canmore ID 3423
Site Number HY63NW 18
NGR HY 61 37
NGR Description HY c. 61 37
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3423
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NW 18 c. 61 37
See also HY63NW 12, HY63NW 19, HY63NW 20.
'The Broch of Lamaness' is stated to be the provenance of a collection of finds which were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by Col Balfour of Balfour and Trenabie in 1878. It included a bone comb with ornamentation of concentric circles, a flat headed bronze pin with a band of ornament round the middle, a bronze bodkin, spindle whorls, bone implements including what could be a knife handle, rotary quernstones and stone vessels.
The Viking finds HY63NW 19 may also have come from this site since they formed part of the same donation and are said to have been found in digging in the ruins of an ancient structure at Lamaness (NMAS Catalogue no.1892)
(See also HY63NW 12).
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1878 (Donations).
No further information
Visited by OS (RL) 7 July 1970.
Note (1980)
'Broch of Lam(b)aness', Sanday HY c.61 37 HY63NW 18
Stated provenance of Iron Age and Viking finds now in the National Museum of
Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS GH 1-30, IL 179-81, IL 347-50); no evidence that it really was a broch.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 338)
Publication Account (2002)
HY63 3 LAMANESS ('Broch of Lam(b)a-ness')
HY61.37. (approx)
Site of possible broch in Cross and Burness on Sanday I.. There is no information except for a collection of finds (some of them Viking) presented to the National Museum in 1878 [2] there is no evidence as to the nature of any structure found. There are two perforated stone 'loom weights and an adult human skull from 'Laminess' in the Cursiter collection in the Hunterian Museum which are probably from this broch (B.1914.803 and 804: B.1922.8).
Sources: 1. OS card HY 63 NW 18: 2. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 12 (1876-78), 599: 3. Lamb 1980, 16.
E W MacKie 2002
