Scheduled Monument
Knowe of Hunclett,broch ESE of Hunclett,Frotoft,RousaySM1456
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 31/12/1935
- Last Date Amended
- 23/02/1996
- Type
- Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
- Local Authority
- Orkney Islands
- Parish
- Rousay And Egilsay
- NGR
- HY 41454 27197
- Coordinates
- 341454, 1027197
Description
The monument consists of the remains of an Iron Age broch with extensive external buildings and defensive ramparts and ditches.
The monument lies just above the shoreline, and archaeological remains are visible in the low cliffs towards the SW side of the site. The broch survives as a rounded mound, which has been cut towards a rectangular appearance by ploughing up to its foot over the years. On the E side of the mound are traces of lesser structures. To the W of the mound is a sub-rectangular platform, now separated from the broch by a deep ditch and drystone dyke, but originally forming part of the complex associated with the broch. It is also likely that this western part of the monument was used in medieval times, as the site of the old house of Hunclett.
The area to be scheduled, which is being extended slightly from that originally protected, is irregular on plan, bounded to the S by the high water mark. It measures a maximum of 85m E-W by 75m N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying map. The modern ditch and dyke which cross the monument from N to S are excluded from scheduling, to facilitate their maintenance and repair.
References
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