Very substantial drystone structure visible in section in coast edge, standing c.2m high. The structure has been half-sectioned by the sea. It appears to have intramural spaces or passages and could be a broch-type building, or even a chambered tomb? The presence of midden and archaeological material would lend more support to the former interpretation. The visible deposits cover a stretch of c.12m, and may continue to the north, but modern dumping obscures this part of the section. The southern part of the section contains a very large, curving double-faced wall, c.3m wide, with a possible intramural space. The faces of the wall stand up to c.1m high in section, and large stones eroded out on the beach follow the projected line along both the inner and outer faces. The projected line of the outer face of this wall is in line with a ridge of bedrock forming the foreshore here. The interior of the structure appears to have been divided into compartments by a series of piers constructed of coursed drystone walls and very large orthostats (c.2m high). The walls are surrounded by rubble and collapsed walling and c.1m of midden deposits containing bone, shell, charcoal flecks and fire-cracked stone in a peat ash matrix. The curving outer wall visible on the south side of the structure appears to suggest that more than half of the building has been lost to erosion, with less than half remaining behind the coast edge, although a slight mound behind the section indicates the site's location. Extensive tipping over coast edge (presumably as an ad hoc coastal defence) has obscured the northern side of the site, though intermittent areas of stonework and large slabs are visible in section among the modern rubble and very large slabs on the foreshore may be the eroding remains of further walling. The site has been very badly damaged by coastal erosion, and more than half has already been lost. |
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29/06/2018 | June 2018: structures in section | joannahambly | |
21/04/2013 | Detail of outer wall with possible intramural structure | joannahambly | |
21/04/2013 | Detail of interior of structure in Sept 2017 | joannahambly | |
21/04/2013 | Site in Sept 2017 | joannahambly | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, general view of the site and coast edge | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, general view of the site in section | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, showing the section through the curving wall; the inner and outer faces and the intramural space with a possible corbelled cell | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, showing inner and outer faces of the curving wall | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, view of the interior of the broch to the north of the section, showing the modern dumping obscuring the northern part of the section | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, view of the interior of the broch to the north of the section | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, view of the interior of the broch and the inner face of the wall to the south of the section | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Ore Ledge Lopness Broch, view of the interior of the broch and the outer wall on the south side | training1 | |
04/05/2015 | Lopness | Myra | |
04/05/2015 | Lopness | Myra | |
04/05/2015 | Lopness | Myra | |
04/05/2015 | Lopness | Myra | |
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