Knockglass
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Knockglass
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Knockglass 3
Canmore ID 8339
Site Number ND15SE 5
NGR ND 17619 53292
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8339
- Council Highland
- Parish Watten
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
Field Visit (16 June 1910)
About 150 yards to the ENE of Knockglass farmhouse, rising from an arable field, is a conical grass-covered mound containing the ruins of a broch. It measures in diameter some 120ft [36m] from E to W and some 95ft [29m] from N to S, and in elevation some 12ft to 13ft [3.7-3.9m]. It has been broken into for a short distance on the NE.
Visited by RCAHMS (AOC), 16 June 1910.
OS 6” map (1907) ‘Mound’
Field Visit (8 November 1965)
ND15SE 5 1761 5329
As described by the RCAHMS, except that there is now no evidence that it is a broch.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 8 November 1965
Field Visit (10 February 1982)
ND15SE 5 1761 5329
(ND 1761 5329) Broch (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
The mound is as described by the RCAHMS (1911). All that is visible of the broch itself is a small extent of the outer wall-face, 1.0m in length and 0.3m high, halfway up in the S side of the mound.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 February 1982
Note (1995)
'Broch', Knockglass. Subcircular grass-covered mound showing several phases of facing wall on the SE axis. The top contains a central depression.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
Publication Account (2007)
ND15 16 KNOCKGLASS 3
ND/1761 5329
Possible broch in Watten, Caithness, in the form of a conical grass-covered mound 3.66-3.96m (12-13ft) high; a very short fragment of a curved outer wallface is visible half way up the south side of the mound, possibly too short to make the diagnosis of a broch probable.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 15 SE 5: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 131, no. 475.
E W MacKie 2007
