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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654685
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654685
ND16SW 9 1036 6480.
(ND 1036 6480) Brough (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
This mound, overgrown with grass, appears to have been a broch, but it has been quarried into and the greater part of the structure has been removed, so that there is now no definite indication off its character. This is possibly the "Pict's house' referred to by Pococke (1774).
R Pococke 1887; RCAHMS 1911.
Listed as an uncertain broch.
A Graham 1949
The grass-covered mound, measuring 26.0 to 30.0m across by 1.5m high, is now so greatly mutilated and robbed that it is impossible to ascertain whether it is a cairn or a broch, although its topographical position tends towards the latter.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965
(ND 1036 6480) Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, (1970)
The mound is as described by the previous field investigator. Its size, general shape and location beside a burn suggest a broch, but no wall faces are exposed.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 October 1981
'Broch'. Dimensions: 26 x 20m. Circular, grass-covered mound almost completely quarried away, leaving no definite indication of its character. Orientation E-W.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
