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Mainland, Yesnaby, Broch of Borwick
Orkney Islands, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2845
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2845 (2845)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sandwick
- National Grid reference
- HY 2241 1678
- Latitude
- 59.03109
- Longitude
- -3.35348
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1880); Excavation (1881); Earthwork Survey (1928); Other (1935); Other (1966); Other (1975); Other (1983); Other (1985); Other (1987); Geophysical Survey (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1418
- HER
- Orkney Islands 1660
- National record
- record HY 21 NW 1; monument 1660
- Wikidata
- Q31052736
Sources
References
- Hedges, J W (1987c) Bu, Gurness and the brochs of Orkney, part 3: the brochs of Orkney, Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British Series 165: Oxford (p 83-5)
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- Lynn and Bell, D and B (1983) 'Broch of Borwick (Sandwick p), broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 19
- Lynn and Bell, D and B (1987) 'Broch of Borwick (Sandwick parish), pottery and worked bone'. Disc Exc Scot (1987), 34
- MacKie, E W (2002) The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700BC - AD500: architecture and material culture Part 1 - The Orkney and Shetland Isles. BAR British Series 342: Oxford
- Moore, J (2011) 'Yesnaby-Skaill Landscape Survey, Orkney (Sandwick parish), walkover and geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 137
- RCAHMS (1946) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, 3v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Watt, W G T (1882) 'Notice of the broch known as Burwick or Borwick, in the township of Yescanabee and parish of Sandwick, Orkney'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 16 (1881-2), 442-50