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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 651016
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651016
NC76SW 3 7994 6266.
(NC 7994 6266) Broch (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)
In a strong position, on the summit of a knoll which crowns the steep cliff on the west side of Armadale Burn, is a ruined broch. It measures 7.0m diameter within a wall varying from 4.3m to 4.7m thick, which is reduced mainly to base footings of the outer face, but survives to a maximum height of 1.3m internally. The entrance, 0.9m wide, is in the SE arc; no door checks or bar holes can be seen but corbelling of a guard chamber is exposed to the north of the entrance, and some 3.5m to the west are traces of the end wall of a mural chamber.
An outer defensive wall of uncertain width extends from the river cliff north of the broch around the west side, rejoining the cliff in the SE; the west part however is obscured by broch debris. The outer face is traceable intermittently to a maximum height of 0.5m. The entrance is on the north side, the easiest means of approach. See plan and photograph. Revised at 1/10,000.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909; Visited by OS (W D J) 26 April 1960 and (N K B) 28 June 1977.
