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Bridge Of Isauld
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bridge Of Isauld
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 7258
Site Number NC96NE 19
NGR NC 9767 6504
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7258
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
NC96NE 19 9767 6504
(NC 9767 6504) Pict's House (NR) (Site of)
(Undated) OS map.
When this Pict's house was removed about 1860 nothing of importance was found but some querns, animal bones, and other trifling traces of its inhabitants. A spring in the centre of the building is now drained into the Isauld Burn. No trace of the antiquity remains except a slight inequality of the ground.
Name Book 1873.
No traces of any mound, or other feature, exist at the site indicated on the OS map. The site is occupied by a slightly undulating arable field.
Visited by OS (J L D), 18 May 1960.
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (J B), 8 September 1981.
Publication Account (2007)
NC96 4 ISAULD (‘Bridge of Isauld’) NC/9767 6504
Site of possible broch in Reay, Caith-ness, which was marked as a 'Pict's house' on the OS 6-inch map of 1877 [1]. It had evidently been removed by about 1860 when some querns and animal bones were found. A spring found in the centre of the broch now drains into the burn [1]. No trace of a building now remains.
Source: 1. NMRS site no. NC 96 NE 19.
E W MacKie 2007
