Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586874
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586874
NC74 2 INSHLAMPIE
NC/7159 4657
Probable broch in Farr, Sutherland, standing in a naturally defensive situation, overlooking the river Naver and flanked by ravines on the north and south. Neither the entrance nor any intra-mural chambers are visible, though the fact that the rubble is lower on the west-north-west suggests that the entrance is here [1]. Both wallfaces are intermittently visible and suggest an overall diameter of 15.5m [1], or 16.78m (55ft) [2]. The internal diameter is about 6.5m [1] or 8.84m (29ft) [2]. On the east side the inner wallface was visible to a height of about 1.2m (4ft) in 1909 [2] but by 1985 few traces of the feature could be seen [3].
There are a few traces of structures on the terrace between the west side of the broch and the steep drop to the river. There is another terrace on the east side bounded by a possible ditch running across the promontory and there are traces of massive walling at the foot of the outer slope of the former [3, plan].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NC 74 NW 5: 2. RCAHMS 1911a, 60, no. 178: 3. Swanson (ms) 1985, 737-38 and plan.
E W MacKie 2007
