Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643089

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU69SW 20 6295 9011.

(HU 6294 9015) Brough (OE)

(HU 6296 9013) Tumulus (OE)

O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1900).

'The remains of a green mound which is generally supposed to be part of a tumulus. In 1868 while removing this mound for other uses burnt stones and ashes were brought to view.'

Name Book 1878.

The much-dilapidated remains of a broch with its out-buildings and defences. Despite considerable robbing of stone, particularly from the outbuildings, it is still possible to see that the broch had an over-all diameter of approximately 65' and a wall thickness of 16'6" on the west, expanding slightly towards the entrance pass- age on the east, indicated by the heavy lintel-stone of the doorway. There are, or were, traces of cells within the walls.

"Close by this burgh are the foundations of a number of small houses, entirely in ruins, seemingly of the same age with the burgh itself. They are of an oblong shape, rounded off at the corners." (G Low 1879)

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1930.

A broch, generally as described by the RCAHM. Disturbed ground on the east indicates the existence of outbuildings previously called 'Tumulus' by the O.S. There are traces of an outer rampart now greatly reduced and mutilated.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(RL) 16 May 1969.