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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654274
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654274
ND26SW 7 2398 6369.
(ND 2398 6369) Broch (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1970)
This broch was trenched over by the farmer after it had been used as a quarry for many years. No plan of the structure could be made out. The central area was roughly estimated as about 30ft in diameter, and near the centre was a well with about a dozen steps leading down to it.
Since Mrs Young states that courtyard wells are uncommon in second phase brochs, it seems probable that this one belonged to the first phase, ie. 1st centuries BC and AD Implements, vessels and ornaments of stone, horn, bone, bronze and paste were recovered from the site; most of them are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), donated by Joseph Anderson in 1871 (Accession nos GA 82-92). They include a 4th - 5th century AD bronze pin of open projecting head form (GA 91).
J Anderson 1873; NMAS 1892; RCAHMS 1911; A Young 1964; R B K Stevenson 1955
There is no trace of a broch in the area indicated.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 November 1965
No change to the previous field report.
Two possible finds from the broch occur around the farm. The first is a sub-triangular or sub-oval stone bowl 0.35m across by 0.2m deep, with two opposing hollows in the exterior which appear to be hand holds. The other object is a stone mortar; the hole is 0.3m in diameter and the same in depth.
Visited by OS (J B) 6 May 1982
Broch (ND 2538 6290), Murza. Diameter: 48m. Circular grass-covered mound 2.5m high eroded by ploughing. Two facing stones are visible in the NW and NNW sectors.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
