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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1976
Event ID 651750
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651750
NC82SE 3 8949 2403.
(NC 8949 2403) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6"map, (1962)
The remains of a circular enclosure, alleged to have been a broch (J Anderson 1873 and H Morrison 1883) but so much robbed and overgrown that its true character is indefinite. It measures 78' in diameter over a wall which seems to have been about 19' thick with an entrance in the SE.
(RCAHMS 1911)
The remains of a circular enclosure 15.2m in diameter. It is mutilated and overgrown with heather but it is not a broch as suggested above. It consists of an earth and stone bank 6m broad and 0.6m high with an entrance in the SE. In the interior is a small hut 8m by 6.5m, joining the enclosure on either side of its entrance , and between the west side of the hut and the enclosure bank is a mutilated scooped area.
Visited by OS (W D J) 29 May 1961
This enclosure is sub-oval in plan, measuring internally about 15.0m SW-NE by 12.5m. It has been built up on the NE side giving an exterior height of 2.2m. It is impossible to define the exact nature of the internal features due to a thick bracken cover, and the certainty that quarrying has occurred to provide material for the adjacent township wall of Learable. An old, wasted field wall lying close by to the north is possibly contemporary with the enclosure.
Revised at 1:10,000
Visited by OS (JB) 23 December 1976
