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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 652773
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/652773
NC96SE 7 9943 6463.
(NC 9943 6463) Brough (NR)
OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
The ruins of this broch are covered by a grassy hillock 6ft high; the outline of the broch exposed at one or two points indicates an overall diameter of about 53ft. A chamber has been revealed on the W, and there appears to have been numerous outbuildings on this side.
RCAHMS 1911.
The much mutilated, grass-covered remains of a broch, measuring overall 30.0m in diameter and 0.2m high. The actual wall of the broch, fragments of which can be seen in the N and S, appears to have been 4.0 to 5.0m wide and the internal diameter 8.0 to 9.0m. In the SE there is the opening of a chamber measuring 1.4m by 1.0m. No trace of any outbuildings associated with the broch could be found. The grass-covered footings which can be seen to the S are of two comparatively modern rectangular buildings.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 13 November 1964.
(NC 9943 6463) Broch (NR)
OS 6"map, (1963)
The remains of a broch surviving as a turf-covered mound 1.3m high which has been extensively quarried so that the broch shape is destroyed. The mural cell with its entrance to the broch interior survives. Immediately to the W of the broch are the footings of a recent rectangular building with an attached enclosure; disturbed ground around the broch may indicate associated outworks.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 November 1981.
