Monument record MHG2133 - Broch, Green Hill, Reiss

Green Hill (NAT) Broch (NR) OS 6" map, (1968)

'Norwall Broch', South Kilmster, ruins of which are partially exposed, is in a partly excavated grassy mound and plan by John Nicolson, Lybster, was made then. The wall thickness is 13.5ft, and the interior diameter is 26ft. Outside broch, and to N of entrance passage the remains of considerable outbuildings have been uncovered. Finds from broch were donated to NMAS by C S T Calder in 1947-8.
RCAHMS 1911; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1950.

The broch is situated on a v gentle NE-facing slope and has been cut off from higher ground to SE by a broad ditch, now under the plough, but still about 1m deep. The broch, which has max height of 2.6m on NW side, is now entirely grassed over and no trace of any wall is evident except for a few exposed stones on S side of the entrance passage, which is in W side.
The court is 9.2m diam and has a max depth of 1.1m below present top of broch. No traces of outbuildings mentioned by RCAHMS are evident; 7m N of entrance, in a hollow is an upright stone slab 0.7m high by 0.4m broad and 0.2m thick, possibly a door jamb.
Revised at 1:2500. Visited by OS (E G C) 22 April 1963.

No change except that the slab noted is part of outbuildings, of which nothing further can be seen on ground.
Visited by OS (J M) 27 July 1982.