Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641531

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU28SW 2 2391 8064.

(HU 2391 8064) The remains of a broch with partially preserved defensive works. The remains of the broch are concealed in a grass-covered knoll and are exposed at only three points, two of which lie diametrically opposite to each other on the NW and SE arcs, giving an external diameter of approximately 62'. What is possibly the back wall of a mural cell is laid bare on the NE arc.

The valley escarpment to the east of the broch has been crowned by a wall or revetted rampart much of which has slipped down the slope. At its northern extremity this meets at right angles a mound about 45' long and 5' high from the bottom of the ditch on its outside,from which it is probably upcast. On the north and west of the broch is a rampart of earth and stones which is now the outstanding feature of the site. It stands some 7' or 8' high from the bottom of its internal ditch. On the north it ends abruptly at the natural escarpment, but at the south end it now falls away into a ridge 2' high which dies out of surface level after being interrupted by some heights and hollows. Other irregularities seem to indicate that it continued until it met the return end of the wall on the east.

The ditch, deepest on the north, also fades out as it runs southwards. Sited from AP's Visible on RAF air photo (RAF 106G/Scot/UK 99. 3065-6) flown 1946.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1935

The remains of a broch and its outer defences as described and planned by the RCAHMS.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 23 May 1969

Survey Diagram.