Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586299
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
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ND13 10 ACHNAGOUL ('Pict's house')
ND/1627 3233
Probable broch in Latheron, Caith-ness, consisting of a turf-covered mound 23.0m in diameter and 1.5m high with the lintelled entrance and a curved stretch of the outer wallface – 8m long and two courses high – exposed on the south-east side; the diameter of the building is estimated at 17.0m [1]. There may be traces of an outer defence to the north.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 13 SE 14: 2, Swanson (ms) 1985, 690-91 and plan.
E W MacKie 2007