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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647226
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647226
NB45NE 1 46172 59665.
(NB 462 597) Dun (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)
There are the remains of a dun or broch, approached by a causeway, on the larger of the two islands in Loch Bharabhat.
In 1852 no portion of the wall could be traced, but its diameter was estimated at approx. 50ft.
Thomas classifies it as a broch and found "6 or 8ft of it remaining".
By 1914 it had become "a mound of tumbled stones about 70ft in diameter and rising 4ft above the water ... utterly destroyed" and listed as a site.
Name Book 1852; F W L Thomas 1890; RCAHMS 1928.
Thomas' plan indicates that this was a galleried dun occupying almost the whole of a small island at NB 4617 5965, but nothing survives except a scatter of stones. The causeway is still visible, but is submerged to a depth of 1ft.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1969.
