Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650249

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC63NW 11 6046 3558

(NC 6046 3558) Broch (NR)

The remains of a broch, Dun Creagach, with outworks, situated on an island but connected to the shore by a causeway. The broch measures 31ft in diameter within a wall about 13ft6ins thick which stands to a general height of about 11ft externally. The interior is debris-filled, only 4ft of the walling being exposed. The entrance, in the east, is 2ft 6ins to 3ft wide and is almost filled with stones, but it is possible to establish that there has been a guard chamber and that the lintel stones remain in situ over most of the passage. A stone wall flanks the broch at a distance of 15ft on the SW and swings round through the south towards the entrance but its connection is concealed by a mass of fallen stone. A doorway, 3ft wide, whose jambs are still in situ has led through the wall on to the causeway which is about 10ft broad and 100ft long, formed of rough boulders.

RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

Generally as described by the RCAHMS, this broch survives to a maximum height of 2.5m, the circuit of both faces of the wall being almost complete. The entrance to a debris-filled chamber is visible in the SW segment. The outwork is an earth and stone wall 3.0m wide and 0.9m high.

Visited by OS (W D J) 11 May 1961.

The broch is generally as described and illustrated by the previous authorities. Two mural passages in the SE and N can be traced intermittently around the wall summit. The name 'Dun Creagach' (RCAHMS 1911) is not known locally.

Visited by OS (J B) 12 April 1977.