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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 654912
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/654912
ND16SW 3 1257 6136.
(ND 1257 6136) Brough (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
The broch at Skinnet has had the E side removed so that a segment, representing less than one half of the original remains of the structure overgrown with grass, is all that exists.
RCAHMS 1911; J Anderson 1873
Classified as a broch.
A Graham 1949
The remains of this feature now consist of a grass-covered mound of earth and stones, 23.0m long, 14.0m wide and 2.0m high. It is impossible without excavation to classify this as a broch.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965
(ND 1257 6136) Broch (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map, (1970)
This mound is as described by the previous field investigator. An arc of stone spread to 4.0m tops the mound. A measurement across this arc gives an approximate internal diameter of 15.0m; too great for a broch. The nature of the mound cannot be classified from field inspection.
Visited by OS (J B) 6 October 1981
'Broch'. Dimensions: 21 x 13m. Grass-covered oval mound 3m high destroyed by quarrying on E and W sides.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995.
