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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 653918
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/653918
ND13SW 3 1369 3050.
(ND 1369 3050) Broch (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962)
In the highest of the cultivated fields about 1/3 mile WSW of Balcraggy Lodge is a grassy mound containing the ruins of a broch. The outline of the broch is not recognisable, but the diameter of the mound is 70ft and its greatest height, 11ft. Much of the ruin has been removed.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
All that is left of this broch is a large, mutilated mound of earth and stone measuring 30.0m N-S by 27.0m transversely and some 3.5m high on the N side. Approximately 6.0m SE from the centre of the mound, a small trench has been dug, revealing the rubble core of a wall 1.4m long and 0.6m high; E of this, the base of the outer wall face can just be discerned.
Visited by OS (W D J) 25 June 1960.
As described above. Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 14 March 1968.
The mound containing the broch remains is generally as described by the previous authorities. The small trench noted, 2.0m long and 0.8m deep, exposes one side of a mural gallery. There are no other wall faces to be seen.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 August 1982.
