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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586223
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586223
ND06 7 OUST ('Broughs') ND/0632 6552
Probable broch in Thurso, Caithness, consisting of two excavated drystone chambers in the stack yard at Oust [2]. One is 1.53m (5ft) square and 3.43m (11ft 3in) deep with the lower part rock-cut, and may have been a cellar or well; a flight of 14 rock-cut steps leads down into it, and it has been roofed with converging slabs. A short distance away is a 'shaft' 60cm (2ft) square, also rock-cut at the base. These features were still visible in 1981 [1] but no other signs of a broch are apparent. The nature of the 'well' strongly recalls those found in Orkney brochs, for example at Gurness (site HY32 2).
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 06 NE 7: 2. RCAHMS 1911a, 125-26, no. 455.
E W MacKie 2007
