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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 586309
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586309
ND15 1 ACHANARRAS (‘Achanarras Farm’)
ND/1511 5515
The site of a possible broch in Halkirk, Caithness, which in 1910 consisted of a grassy mound 7.6m (25ft) in diameter and 1.2m (4ft) high [2]. There were traces of a semicircular bank which might have been the scanty remains of the wall of half a broch [1]. The site no longer exists [3].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 15 NE 2: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 32, no. 99: 3. Swanson (ms) 1985, 655.
E W MacKie 2007
