Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649894

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC64SE 1 6926 4496.

(NC 6926 4496) Broch (NR)

OS 6" map, (1961)

The remains of a broch occupying a commanding position on a ridge above the Langdale Burn. It has been built of large stones and has a diameter of about 31ft within a wall 15ft to 17ft thick. The inner face is exposed for a maximum height of 3ft. The entrance, 3ft wide at the outer end, is from the W, its S wall surviving to a height of 3ft 6ins and incorporating a built door-check.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

The broch is reduced to a tumbled mass of stone 1.5m high, but the internal wall face is traceable around almost the whole circuit. The external face is less apparent except on the W, where the entrance passage 1.0m wide can be seen. Internally the broch meausres 9.5m N-S by 8.7m transversely, with the wall 4.1m to 5.0m thick. Crude facing on the N side of the entrance may indicate a guard chamber.

Visited by OS (J L D) 7 May 1960 and (J B) 7 August 1978.