The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age'broch village' on the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound. The remains of the central tower attain a height of up to 3.6 metres with stone walls up to 4.1 metres thick.[1] The broch would likely have had a conical or mildly hyperbolic top[2], and has the remains of a settlement surrounding and adjoining it.
Pieces of a Romanamphora dating from before 60 AD were found here, lending weight to the record that a "King of Orkney" had submitted to the Emperor Claudius at Colchester in 43 AD.[3]
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