Dun Torrisdale
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Dun Torrisdale
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Dun Thorasdal; Torrisdail; Dun Thorsadal
Canmore ID 5792
Site Number NC66SE 4
NGR NC 67730 61861
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5792
- Council Highland
- Parish Tongue
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC66SE 4 67730 61861
(NC 6773 6185) Dun Torrisdale (NR)
OS 6" map, (1964)
The mutilated remains of a dun, Dun Thorasdal (Morrison 1882) or Dun Torrisdale (Information from George MacKay, Postmaster, Torrisdale), situated on a knoll immediately south of a disused sandpit. The remains form a mound 15m in diameter and 3m in maximum height on the NE. Morrison notes the robbing of several underground chambers for building stone, and a stone lamp from the sandpit (Information from George Mackay) was donated to the NMAS by W J MacKay in 1955-6 (PSAS 1958) (Acc.No. AQ 120)
H Morrison 1882; H Morrison 1883; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1958.
A quarried stony mound, about 18m in diameter, truncated on the NE by a sand pit. The size, situation and quality of stone in the mound suggest that it may have been a broch.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (I S S) 14 July 1971.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B) 15 September 1977.
Dun Torrisdale [NAT] (depicted around NC 67730 61861)
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
Publication Account (2007)
NC66 4 TORRISDAIL ('Dun Thorsadal', ‘Dun Torrisdale’)
NC/6773 6185
Possible broch in Tongue, Sutherland, consisting of the wrecked remains of a building on a knoll of clay; the mound is 15min diameter and 3m in maximum height. Several “underground chambers” are reported to have been robbed for building stone [1] and a stone lamp from the nearby sandpit was given to the National Museum in Edinburgh in 1955 [4].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. NC 66 SE 4: 2. Morrison 1883, 98: 3. RCAHMS 1911a, 184, no. 528: 4. Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 89 (1955-6), 459, no. 20.
E W MacKie 2007
