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Field Visit
Date August 1997
Event ID 882693
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/882693
A broch mound, 20m in diameter and 1.5m high, is located on a small headland, surrounded by low cliffs. A double series of ditch and bank defences, to the landward side of the broch, frame a narrow entrance passage on the E side. The broch structure lies beneath a grass-covered mound of accumulated rubble and soil deposits. Several large stones, which may be structural, protrude from the ground surface and there are small exposures of rubble to the seaward side. The outermost defences comprise a curvilinear earthen and stone bank with a ditch to the inside. The bank is 1.5m wide and up to 1m high. The inner bank, which also has a ditch to its inside, survives to a height of 1.5m and is up to 2m wide.
Moore and Wilson, 1997
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey
