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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 587118
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587118
NG33 5 DUN GARSIN
NG/3609 3878
This probable broch, perhaps ground-galleried, in Bracadale, Skye, stands on the summit of a flat-topped crag; most of its stones were removed to build a revetment on the side of the road to Sligachan “many years” before 1915 [2]. There are faint traces of an outer wall around the summit but the main building is nothing but a mass of stones. The overall diameter has been about 16.78m (55 ft) and on the south-south-east there is a trace of what may be the face of the inner wall of a ground level mural gallery. There may be an entrance on the east-north-east [1].
Dimensions: a recent survey [1] gives an internal diameter north-south of 8.0m and a wall thickness of 3.1m in the north and 3.5m in the south [1]. However Swanson's 1985 plan does not show enough of the wallfaces to measure [4, plan].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NG 33 NE 1: 2. RCAHMS 1928, no. 482, p. 143: 3. MacSween 1984-85, 41, no. 3: 4. Swanson (ms) 1985, 884 and plan.
E W MacKie 2007
