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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654367
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654367
ND24NE 5 2555 4558.
(ND 2555 4558) Broch (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
The remains of a broch surmount a rounded rock about 12ft high on the summit of a rocky escarpment 12 to 15ft high. Two segments of what appears to be the turf-covered wall of the broch rise to a height of 3 to 4ft indicating an approximate diameter of 78ft externally and 34ft internally. No wall-face is visible.
The sides of the rock are steeply scarped on the W and E and these sides are also defended (at a distance of 20ft from the broch) by a trench 30ft wide and 3 to 4ft deep at the counterscarp.
The entrance has probably been from the N where there has been disturbance and where there may have been outbuildings.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
The remains of a broch of a roughly circular natural knoll on the brink of a rocky escarpment.
The knoll has been roughly levelled and its sides scarped and there is evidence in mutilations that a wall has occupied the rim enclosing a circular area about 32.0m in diameter. The broch has been placed centrally within this enclosure and has been robbed from the W so that all that survives is a low,turf-covered hollowed mound about 20.0m in diameter and 1.5m maximum height in which no structural details are evident. The area between the broch and the outer wall in the W is mutilated by three elongated hollows which may be due to quarrying although one or two upright slabs suggest that there have been outbuildings here.
The broch has apparently been encircled in the W, N and E by a ditch which has terminated at each end on the escarpment. It survives for a length of about 40.0m in the E where it is 12.0m broad and 1.2m deep, but elsewhere, apart from a fragment on the edge of the escarpment in the W, it has been ploughed out.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) 12 April 1972.
No change to the above report.
Visited by OS (J M) 8 December 1982.
