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Geise
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Geise
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Geise 1
Canmore ID 8550
Site Number ND16SW 9
NGR ND 1036 6480
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8550
- Council Highland
- Parish Thurso
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND16SW 9 1036 6480.
(ND 1036 6480) Brough (NR)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
This mound, overgrown with grass, appears to have been a broch, but it has been quarried into and the greater part of the structure has been removed, so that there is now no definite indication off its character. This is possibly the "Pict's house' referred to by Pococke (1774).
R Pococke 1887; RCAHMS 1911.
Listed as an uncertain broch.
A Graham 1949
The grass-covered mound, measuring 26.0 to 30.0m across by 1.5m high, is now so greatly mutilated and robbed that it is impossible to ascertain whether it is a cairn or a broch, although its topographical position tends towards the latter.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 February 1965
(ND 1036 6480) Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, (1970)
The mound is as described by the previous field investigator. Its size, general shape and location beside a burn suggest a broch, but no wall faces are exposed.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 October 1981
'Broch'. Dimensions: 26 x 20m. Circular, grass-covered mound almost completely quarried away, leaving no definite indication of its character. Orientation E-W.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
Publication Account (2007)
ND16 2 GEISE 1 ('Pict’s house') ND/1036 6480
Possible broch in Olrig, Caithness, consisting of the remains of a grass-covered mound most of which has been removed by quarrying; it stands next to the small Geise Burn, a tributary of the river Thurso. There are no clues as to the nature of the original building which may be the 'Pict’s house' referred to by Pococke in 1760 [3].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 16 SW 9: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 118-19, no. 430: 3. Pococke 1760 in Kemp 1887, 133: 4. Swanson (ms) 1985, 630-31
E W MacKie 2007
