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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654684
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654684
ND16SW 8 1316 6443.
(ND 1316 6443) Tulloch of Shalmstry (NR) (Mound) (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed. (1907)
Tulloch of Shalmstry is a green mound containing the ruins of a broch. The outer face is exposed towards the SE, and the diameter overall appears to have been some 72ft, and its height about 7ft. The entrance passage, which has been from the E, has been cleared at its outer end, and there measures 2ft 10ins wide.
RCAHMS 1911
Classified as a broch.
A Graham, 1949
The remains of this broch are as described above.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965
(ND 1316 6443) Tulloch of Shalmstry (NAT) Broch (NR)
OS 6" map (1970)
'Tulloch of Shalmstry', the remains of a broch, as described by the previous authorities.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 February 1982
"Broch", Shalmistry. Dimensions: 26 x 21m. Oval grass-covered mound with some coursing evident on the SW side. Entrance visible on the E. Orientation N-S.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
