Archaeology Notes

Event ID 652975

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND13NE 2 1524 3522.

(ND 1524 3522) Broch (NR) (remains of)

(Undated) OS map annotation.

The remains of this broch, behind the croft house of Tiantulloch, are covered by a mound, 10ft high, in the E side of which appears a considerable length of broch walling, 5ft high. The overall diameter of the broch appears to have been about 56ft although part of the W side of the mound has been removed. Towards the NE is evidence of outbuildings and an exposed wall, a few feet high, bounds the site on the S.

RCAHMS 1911.

Generally as described by the RCAHM. A small semicircular alcove, of later date, has been inserted in the broch wall to the SE.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 9 May 1967.

The remains of a broch, generally as described by the RCAHMS and the previous field investigator. The broch mound rises from a larger mound containing outbuildings; this latter mound is faced on its S side and around to the NE by walling up to 1.3m high which abuts the SW end on the outside of the broch. Removal of some stone near the broch end of the wall has revealed the corbelled roof of an outbuilding and an apparent lintelled passage or gallery leading off it.

Visited by OS (J M) 8 November 1982.