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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660042
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660042
NH19SE 1 1695 9008
(NH 1695 9008) Pitish Tower (OE) (Remains of).
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
The foundation of a circular mound or old wall about 30 feet in diameter, on the north bank of Allt Raon a'Chroisg about 5 chains above the Ullapool Road, is stated by A G Pirie Esq., proprietor of the Leckmeln Estate, to be known locally and traditionally as the remains of a Pictish Tower. Lt Col T P White who signed this note, (1886) taken from the survey trace, could not trace any descriptive name for it.
OS Name Book 1875; D Macdonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931.
Calder and Steer could find no trace of a 'Pictish Tower' (? broch) and the oldest local inhabitant had never heard of its existence. Visited October 1947.
C S T Calder and K A Steer 1948-9.
At the published site there is a grass-and-heather- covered knoll, bordered on two sides by a steep ravine. Many loose rubble stones litter the hillock, suggesting some kind of previous construction, but there is nothing to indicate a broch. The knoll is not circular now, but it appears to have been quarried on the north side.
Visited by OS (N K B), 6 October 1964
No change to previous report
Visited by OS (N K B), 25 September 1970.
