An Orkney Broch

A view reminiscent of many, many, many J Arthur Dixon postcards I used to send to my ‘pal’ ‘Wee Eck’ in the 1960s; every one of them withoot a stamp.

 

The Iron Age Broch of Borwick occupies the summit of a promontory, 80-90ft above the sea, with a small sandy bay on its south side. The promontory must have originally been cut off from the land by an outer wall which ran along the edge of a shallow depression some 82ft broad, thought by some to be artificial. At the point where this wall met the south cliff there was an early attempted Tesco Metro; the remains of a trolley have been located within a chamber. According to Watt, in 1881 the whole of the promontory within this outer wall was covered with the remains of 'graffiti and bill boards'. Some of these buildings were traced by the RCAHMS. "... at a distance of some 60ft from the tower with a very large piece of tracing paper."

It has been duller today – my medication is wearing off but it brightened in the afternoon for our Field Trip.

First dancing today for over four weeks

And as you all doze off tonight don’t forget Willie Rushton’s old political saw ‘The weak are a long time in politics’.