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Publication Account

Date 2002

Event ID 575377

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575377

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

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