Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705752

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS88SW 1 83335 84986

See also NS88SW 49.

(NS 83335 84986) Tappoch (NAT) Broch (NR)

OS 6" map (1967)

The broch is generally as described and planned by RCAHMS. The outworks are now covered by afforestation and the third bank could not be located. A slab, 13.0cm in diameter, sculptured with three concentric rings, may be seen five stones into the stair lobby from the inner face of the broch.

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1974

Traces of what appeared to be an intra-mural chamber were observed on the wallhead on the NE side, and a small scale investigation was carried out in the spring of 1964. The built end of a long chamber about 3' deep was found on the wallhead, appearing to run towards the main entrance at a height which would bring it out above the level of the lintels there. It was surmised that this was a secondary structure, possibly recent, inserted after the broch was in ruins.

E W MacKie 1964

There is a complex carving on a recumbent stone slab at the end of the entrance passage, immediately inside the broch. The carving is of a bar, 19cm long, 9cm wide at one end, and a figure of eight at the other.

N Aitchison 1978

Small lump of vitrified stone from inner concentric bank on N side of broch. A small piece of daub was also found between the inner and outer concentric banks on N side of broch.

N Aitchison 1979.