Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Field Visit
Date 20 June 1914
Event ID 1102876
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102876
Broch, Traigh na Berie.
To the southeast of Valtos, along the south shore of Loch Roag, is a fine stretch of sands, known as Traigh na Berie. Extending southwards from here into a rocky piece of country is a grassy flat, rising only about 25 feet above sea-level, near the western side of which, and 400 yards from the shore, are the remains of a circular dun. Immediately to the west of the site a reedy lochan intervenes between it and the hills, while to the east is a stretch of level grassland about 200 yards across, probably once a marsh. All that remains of the dun is a stony mound, rising at most 4 feet above the surrounding level and showing the outer foundation course of building in position for a considerable part of the circumference. The only measurement obtainable is the external diameter, which is 55 feet. The wall has been at least 10 feet thick, and the entrance, which is quite destroyed, has been from the north-east.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 20 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xvii (unnoted).
