Knowe of Hunclett

Nearest town:
Kirkwall (17km SE)
OS reference:
HY41442722
OS sheets:
5, 6
Latitude:
59° 7' 40.81 N
Longitude:
3° 1' 23.54 W
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Image of Knowe of Hunclett (Broch) by wideford

looking diagonally into E side with curve presumably outside of brock

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wideford
wideford May 27, 2017
Image of Knowe of Hunclett (Broch) by wideford

E/W profile viewed from Blackhammer Cairn, showing wall arc in western part. Could the broch have been built over a settlement dating back to the era of the tomb ? Strikes me the tombs divvy up Rousay better than the brochs

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wideford
wideford Nov 4, 2012
Image of Knowe of Hunclett (Broch) by wideford

platform continues west from field containing broch tower and is thought to survive better as land too rough to be cultivated

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wideford
wideford Nov 4, 2012

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Knowe of Hunclett
Broch
wideford
wideford Nov 4, 2012

RCAHMS record no. HY42N W15 is a ten-foot high turf-covered broch mound, apparently excavated (slight depression on summit), with extensive outbuildings to the south showing as many areas of exposed stonework. Thirty metres from the tower there is a shingle beach rather than the usual rocky Rousay shore, with further archaeology in the shore banks themselves . A rough, unploughable section of the next field west continues the five-foot high broad platform on which the broch sits. An exposed inner broch wall-section a yard long and a foot high has been extrapolated to give a diameter of 30-33’ (with walls at least 10-12’ thick) and its platform extends about two-hundred feet from the fieldwall. The whole broch is bounded at the west by a curving ditch 3-4m wide by 2.2m deep, on whose inner lip a possible fortification is indicated by a stone wall. And an outer wall can be read from more stonework west of the ditch itself.

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