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Publication Account
Date 2007
Event ID 587513
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587513
NN60 1 AUCHINSALT (‘Easter Borland’)
NN/6533 0099
This possible broch – situated on a natural knoll next to the steep west bank of the Littlemill Burn in Port of Menteith – was originally described as a bank of stone ‘”representing a former wall”, the absence of a ditch suggesting the possibility of a broch [2]. In 1968 the Ordnance Survey investigator thought that it was the remains of the stone wall of a dun, 4-5m thick with a few facing stones visible; the proximity of Coldoch (NS69 1) suggested that it might perhaps be another broch [1]. The remains of an outer ditch on the side away from the burn were noted. In 1979 it was accepted as a broch [3].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NN 60 SE 8: 2. Chalmers 1887-94, 93: 3. RCAHMS 1979b, 19, no. 149.
E W MacKie 2007
