Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655331

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND33NW 1 3102 3949

(ND 3102 3949) Broch (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map, (1971)

A robbed broch represented by a turf-covered stony mound about 10ft high and 50ft in diameter, surrounded at a distance of about 31ft, by a wall about 4 1/2ft high which stands on the inner lip of a ditch about 28ft broad and 3 1/2ft deep from the top of the counterscarp. Except on the W, the ditch has been almost destroyed by cultivation.

RCAHMS 1911; R W Feachem 1963.

A broch, as described. The outer wall-face is visible in the S arc as a single, disconnected course of heavy stone. Ground disturbance and protruding upright slabs in the berm to the W of the broch indicate the presence of outbuildings. No name is known locally.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B), 3 May 1967.