Brokencastle
Dun (Prehistoric), Rotary Quern (Iron Age)
Site Name Brokencastle
Classification Dun (Prehistoric), Rotary Quern (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 45387
Site Number NS69SE 5
NGR NS 66637 94451
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Kippen
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS69SE 5 6664 9445.
(NS 6664 9445) Brokencastle (NAT)
OS 6" map (1959)
Generally as described by the RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 23 September 1968
Field Visit (14 October 1952)
NS69SE 666 944 ("Brokencastle" in ordinary type)
Dun, Brokencastle.
The last vestiges of this dun can be seen on a low rocky knoll 640 yds. NE. of Dasher farmhouse and at a height of 200 ft. O.D. The N. flank of the knoll is steep, rocky, and about 20 ft. in height, but the other three sides are only some 10 ft. in height; the summit area measures 90 ft. from E. to W. by 85 ft. transversely. The remains of the wall consist of a few earthfast boulders situated near the margin of the summit area, and a patch of rubble core which is partly exposed through the turf. In 1878 the work was described (1) as a circular fortification.
At the date of visit part of the upper stone of a rotary quern, probably of Early Iron Age date, was recovered from the debris of the core of the wall.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 14 October 1952.
(1) ‘Kippen’, 4
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (July 1978)
Brokencastle NS 666 944 NS69SE 5
All that remains of this dun are traces of a wall near the edge of the summit area of this rocky knoll.
RCAHMS 1979, visited July 1978
(RCAHMS 1963, p. 83, no. 90)
