Tulloch Turnal
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tulloch Turnal
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 7547
Site Number ND02SE 30
NGR ND 0916 2288
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7547
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND02SE 30 0916 2288.
At ND 0916 2288, on a slope close by marshy ground, is a burnt mound, overgrown with heather and bracken. It is 7.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, but it may have extended to the N where there is a low, amorphous swelling. Apart from the broch 120m to the W (ND02SE 4), there is no trace of settlement in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 November 1982.
Field Visit (16 November 1982)
At ND 0916 2288, on a slope close by marshy ground, is a burnt mound, overgrown with heather and bracken. It is 7.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, but it may have extended to the N where there is a low, amorphous swelling. Apart from the broch 120m to the W (ND02SE 4), there is no trace of settlement in the vicinity.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 16 November 1982.
