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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653351
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND12SW 4.00 1168 2335
(ND 1168 2335) Broch (NR)
OS 6" map, (1964).
ND12SW 4.01 ND 1168 2333 Farmstead (possible); Kiln
'High above the Berriedale Water on its N bank and about 1/4 ml W of Berriedale Church are the ruins of a broch. The structure much dilapidated and reduced to the lowest courses of masonry on the exterior. In one or two places the outer face of the wall, formed of very large stones, is exposed. The diameter over all is 54ft and the elevation to the top of the conical mound surmounting the ruins, 7 to 8ft. The posituon is flanked on the W by the side of a deep glen, and in front by the high, steep bank of the Berriedale valley.'
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
This site is generally as described above. The thickness of the broch wall and the internal diameter could not be determined due to the heavy mutilation of the site and the mass of rubble that has been piled up in the interior, to give a maximum height of 3.0m. The overall diameter of the broch has been 16.0m, as measured between the exposed wall faces.
A kiln (ND12SW 4.01) has been built into the SW segment, and other structures of a depopulated settlement are adjacent to the site.
Visited by OS (J L D), 15 June 1960.
A broch as described above.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L), 7 March 1968.
No change to the previous field reports.
Visited by OS (J M), 24 November 1982.
This broch, which was recorded during a pre-afforestation survey of Langwell-Rinsary Braes, Berriedale, measures about 15m in diameter. No structural details of the broch are visible except for the outer face which can be traced for over half its circumference. The broch lies at the centre of a later farmstead. On the NE, the outer face of the broch forms the SW end of a long building whilst on the SW a kiln-barn (ND12SW 4.01) has been dug into the broch.
S Carter and J Rideout (Headland Archaeology), 3 March 1999; NMRS MS 899/141, no.11.
