Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 587502
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587502
NF99 1 TOE HEAD ('Rubh’ an Team-puill')
NF/9700 9134
This probable broch in Harris was discovered in 1965 projecting from below the foundations of the chapel on the site [2] (the Gaelic name means 'point of the temple'). Stripping of turf revealed the broch, which seems to have been reduced to its base course; the inner and outer wallfaces were found, suggesting an overall diameter of 16.5m (54 ft) with a wall thickness of 2.75m (9 ft). The entrance was also found. The similarity with Dùn na Cille is marked (NF60 4).
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NF 99 SE 6: 2. RCAHMS 1928, 31, no. 108: 3. D D A Simpson in Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1965. 20.
E W MacKie 2007
