Fig. 219.—Mounting of Bronze from Broch of Okstrow (3 inches in length).
Fig. 220.—Ground Plan of the Broch of Lingrow, Orkney, with its Secondary Constructions. (From a Plan by Mr. George Petrie and Sir H. Dryden.)
Fig. 221.—Pebble of Quartzite marked by use as a point-sharpener, from Broch of Lingrow (2½ inches in length).
The Broch of Lingrow at the head of the Bay of Scapa, near Kirkwall, explored by the late Mr. George Petrie, had little of its height remaining, but was specially remarkable for the number and extent of the outbuildings clustered round its base. These were not all explored, but so far as they were laid bare they are shown on the plan (Fig. [220]). The articles found were—a large number of querns, a stone lamp, a number of quartz pebbles indented on their flat sides by use as
Fig. 221.—Pebble of Quartzite marked by use as a point-sharpener, from Broch of Lingrow (2½ inches in length). point-sharpeners (Fig. [221]), like those from the Broch of Kintradwell, a large number of implements in red-deer horn, one of which is shown (Fig. [222]), bone pins and needles, and long-handled combs, spindle-whorls of stone, some fragments of bronze, a clay mould (Fig. [223]) for casting bronze pins with open circular heads bearing the same ornamentation, and precisely of the same form as the pin from Bowermadden (Fig. [203]), in Caithness; playing dice of bone, and a very large quantity of pottery ornamented in various patterns, but all unglazed, and of the coarse black paste characteristic of native manufacture.
Fig. 222.—Implement of Deer-horn from Broch of Lingrow (4¼ inches in length). In different parts of the outbuildings there were found four silver Roman coins—denarii of the Empire. Mr. Petrie did not live to draw up a detailed account of the excavation, and his notes do not indicate the reigns to which the coins severally belonged.[[87]] But the occurrence in this Broch of imperial coins, and in others of the red lustrous ware of late Roman or Gallo-Roman origin are indications of the occupation of the Brochs subsequently to the Roman conquest of the southern part of Britain.