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Publication Account

Date 2007

Event ID 586299

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586299

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

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