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Rousay, Midhowe
Orkney Islands, Scotland · Atlas SC2846
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2846 (2846)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Orkney Islands
- Historic county
- Orkney
- Parish, community, or townland
- Rousay And Egilsay
- National Grid reference
- HY 3716 3059
- Latitude
- 59.15758
- Longitude
- -3.10038
- Altitude
- 5 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
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1879); Excavation (1930); Excavation (1931); Excavation (1932); Excavation (1933); Other (1934); Other (1936); Other (1963); Other (1972); Other (1994); Geophysical Survey (2010); Excavation (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90218
- HER
- Orkney Islands 2286
- National record
- record HY 33 SE 2; monument 2286
- Wikidata
- Q31052754
Sources
References
- Brend, A (2010) 'Westness, Rousay, Orkney (Rousay and Egilsay parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 124-5
- Callander, J G, and Grant, W G (1934) The Broch of Midhowe, Rousay, Orkney. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 68 (1933-4), 444-516
- Hedges, J W (1987) Bu, Gurness and the brochs of Orkney, part 3: the brochs of Orkney. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Series 165. BAR: Oxford (p 110-16)
- Lamb, R G (1980) Iron Age promontory forts in the Northern Isles. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 79. BAR: Oxford
- 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. Brit Archaeol Rep, British Ser 342. BAR: Oxford
- Murray, D (2011) 'Mid Howe Broch, Orkney (Rousay and Egilsay parish) excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 134
- 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
- Ritchie, A (1995) Prehistoric Orkney. Batsford and Historic Scotland: London (p 108-12)
- Sharman, P (2004) 'Midhowe Broch, Rousay (Rousay & Egilsay parish), watching brief'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 5 (2004), 96