Breckness

Also known as:
Brickness and Broch of Breckness
Nearest town:
Stromness (3km ENE)
OS reference:
HY225093
OS sheets:
6, 7
Latitude:
58° 57' 50.67 N
Longitude:
3° 20' 51.83 W
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Image of Breckness (Broch) by wideford

small object found on beach other side of The Noust – smoothed by man or water ?

Image credit: wideford
wideford
wideford Jun 21, 2009

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Breckness

wideford
wideford May 17, 2004

“Almost entirely destroyed” all that is left is visible on the eroding cliff. It may be very little compared to what was once there but there is surely value in a vertical section that gradually reveals itself without any person having to excavate it ! A watching brief by archaeologists would provide useful results in time. And it goes a long ways along the cliff, over two points of the coast. Either side of the central broch there is 20~30m of settlement, and the broch itself nearly 12m diameter. Apparently there is a slice of a chapel in there too, which I wish I had known at the time. The most obvious structures at this stage in its unveiling are slab-sided floor drains. My photos will tell the story better – all comparitive clarity after Ingshowe and Berstane.

Miscellaneous

Breckness
Broch
wideford
wideford Sep 3, 2004

The excavator of the well opines that rather than a well as such it may be one of the several structures found on Orkney where a person went down steps to a dry subterranean chamber.

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