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Loch Nan Dailthean

Broch(S) (Iron Age)(Possible), Quern(S), Spindle Whorl(S), Trough(S)

Site Name Loch Nan Dailthean

Classification Broch(S) (Iron Age)(Possible), Quern(S), Spindle Whorl(S), Trough(S)

Canmore ID 11984

Site Number NG88SE 3

NGR NG 877 830

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Gairloch
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NG88SE 3 877 830

Three 'Pictish brochs, or round houses' were 'exposed to view in trenching new land on the shores of Loch nan Dailthean at Tournaig several years ago. Some steatite whorls, stone troughs, ashes, and other remains, were found in them'.

The 'stone troughs' are also described as querns and were found when the land was trenched in 1879.

J H Dixon 1886.

No further information.

Visited by OS (N K B) 12 March 1965.

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Publication Account (2007)

NG88 2 LOCH nan DAILTHEAN

NG/877 830

Three possible brochs or round-houses are reported to have been found near Tournaig in Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty, on the shores of Loch nan Dailthean some years before 1886 together with some steatite whorls, stone “troughs”, ashes and other remains [2]. It seems unlikely that the foundations of three brochs were found close together.

Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NG 88 SE 3: 2. Dixon 1886, 97-8, 104, 142 and 146 (figs.): 3. Close-Brooks 1984, 288.

E W MacKie 2007

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