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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 586987
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/586987
NH59 2 CARN LIATH 3 ('An Dun')
NH/5669 9098
Possible broch with outworks in Kincardine, Sutherland, standing in a strong defensive position on a promontory between the river Carron and the stream Allt Dounie. It consists of an overgrown mound with a central depression in which there are traces of a circular inner wallface, suggesting an internal diameter of c. 10.5m. There is a gap in the south-east, with a displaced lintel, which might be the entrance [1]. There are outer defences on the east, the shallowest approach, consisting of two substantial ramparts across the neck of the promontory with traces of a third beyond these.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NH 59 SE 5: 2. Watson 1904, 31: 3. Graham 1947, 95.
E W MacKie 2007
