Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650463

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC80SW 2 8407 0176.

(NC 8407 0176) Broch (NR)

OS 6"map, (1969)

The remains of a broch, set on a hillock with steep slopes on the south, west and east and a wide natural trench dividing it from the hillock to the north. The diameters appear to have been about 28ft NW-SE by 23ft within a wall 13ft thick which attains a maximum height of 7ft in the interior. The entrance in the west has a guard- chamber on the south and the end of a probable stair-gallery on the north. The broch is encircled by a ruined wall at a distance of about 4ft.

RCAHMS 1911.

The broch is generally as described by RCAHMS. Constructional detail can be seen only in the WNW, the remainder of the circuit exisiting only as a mass of rubble and the interior and entrance of the broch being choked with debris. A doorcheck is visible on the north side of the entrance passage, and the entrance to the guard chamber on the south. The stairs and stair-gallery are partly visible from above in the NNE. Pupils of Tain Academy under the direction of Mr Jackson have cleared part of the north part of the broch but no finds have been made. The identification of "bank" round the broch as a wall is open to doubt. It may be a band of debris, now overgrown, cleared from the base of the broch during an earlier excavation.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (J M) 28 October 1975.