Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575377
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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HU37 2 THE CUMLINS ('Olnesfirth')
HU/308770
Possible broch in Northmavine, an irregular, grass-covered mound of loose stones. A recent report doubts that it could be a broch [1]. Iron Age pottery has been found in it [3], and other artefacts including a saddle quern.
Sources: 1. OS card HU 37 NW 8 (with sketch plan): 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1363, 94: 3. Hamilton 1956, 46-7.
E W MacKie 2002