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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 651105
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651105
NC80NW 1 8462 0646.
(NC 8462 0646) Broch (NR)
OS 6"map, (1969)
The Broch of Carrol, measuring between 30ft 6ins and 31ft internal diameter and surviving to an average height of 10ft, has been excavated. The entrance in the ESE with two door checks and a guard chamber is still roofed, at this point the wall is 14ft thick. In the SW arc is an entrance to a ground floor chamber and to steps rising to first floor level. A first floor gallery is discernible in the NE arc.
The broch is surrounded by an outer wall 7 to 8 ft thick, with a ditch or trench outside it about 20ft wide. The entrance through this outer defence is in line with that of the broch, and a walled passage 5ft wide connects the two.
Finds from the excavation, now in Dunrobin Museum, include a steatite cup with side handle, a rude shale ring and a concave oval plate of ox horn with four rivet holes at one end and two iron rivets in situ.
J M Joass 1873; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
A broch generally as described by RCAHMS (1911), the outer face being obscured by debris from the cleared interior. The existence of a walled passage between the entrances of the broch and outer defences is uncertain due to debris. The occasional earthfast stone protruding through the turf between broch and outer wall indicates secondary structures.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (W D J) 24 April 1964 and (N K B) 3 November 1975.
The Accession nos of the finds from the broch, in Dunrobin Museum, are: 1868.51-4; sherd 1890.1; pebble tool 1891.3.
Information contained in TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum by A S Henshall.
