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Publication Account

Date 2007

Event ID 586431

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586431

ND25 16 WATTEN

ND/2410 5397

Possible broch in Watten, Caithness, consisting of a turf-covered mound 19.5m (64ft) in diameter and 2.4m (8ft) high standing on the edge of the natural slopes above the flood plain of the Wick river. A fragment of curved wall was visible on the south-east side, 2.0m long and 40cm high and is evidently part of the inner wall of a chamber, but had evidently vanished in 1982 [1]. There are several large boulders in a line which suggest the foundations of an outer wall.

Sources: 1. NMRS site ND 25 SW 13: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 129, no. 468.

E W MacKie 2007

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