Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586424
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586424
ND25 9 LYNEGAR ('Grey Cairn')
ND/2304 5662
Possible broch in Watten, Caithness, consisting of an oval grassy mound about 30m by 26m (79ft) in diameter and 1.7m (5.5ft) high. There are several large flat stones on and about it. A “tunnel” was found in it during ploughing in about 1935 [1]. The fairly confident diagnosis of the site as a broch in 1910 [2] may be less plausible in view of the discovery of human remains in it in about 1850 [1], though such discoveries in broch ruins are not uncommon.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 25 NW 3: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 131, no. 471.
E W MacKie 2007
