Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586646
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586646
NC13 1 LOCH ARDBHAIR NC/1688 3323
Probable broch in Assynt, Sutherland, standing on an isolated tidal rocky islet at the inner end of the sea loch of that name. A causeway about 100m long connects it with the shore. The inner and outer faces of the circular drystone structure can be tracedin places, suggesting an internal diameter of 7.32m (24ft) and a wall thick-ness of 3.15m (10ft 6in); the inner face stands 2.24m (7ft 4in) high in places.
An entrance passage is visible on the south side, only 60cm (2ft) wide at the outer end and standing 1.07m (3ft 6in) high on the left side [1]; there is a suggestion of the doorway to a guard chamber in the left wall 1.1m from the inner end [1]. There are no traces of intra-mural galleries or cells, and the quality of the masonry is not high.
Dimensions: the most recent figures [1] are an internal diameter of 6.9m and a wall which is 3.1m thick at the entrance and 3.6m on the west.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NC 13 SE 1: 2. RCAHMS 1911a, 2, no. 4: 3. Graham 1949, 95.
E W MacKie 2007
