Bardintulloch
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Bardintulloch
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Upper Clyth
Canmore ID 8607
Site Number ND23NE 9
NGR ND 2730 3727
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND23NE 9 2730 3727
(ND 2730 3727) Broch (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
The site of a 'Pict's House' destroyed about 1867. Only a slight knoll now marks the site.
Name Book 1871.
The remains of a broch, almost obliterated by ploughing. On the NW side, as well as some facing stones protruding through the turf, there is a section of typical broch walling, 2.2m long and 0.7m high, overlaid by a modern fence. Two facing stones also occur on its SE side in a small area of ground avoided by the plough.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A A), 4 May 1967.
Publication Account (2007)
ND23 11 UPPER CLYTH (‘Bardintulloch’, 'Pict's house')
ND/2730 3727
Site of a possible broch in Latheron, Caithness, now almost completely destroy-ed by ploughing except for a section of “typical broch walling” [1] on the north-west. There was a 'Pict's house' here until about 1867 [1].
Source: 1. NMRS site no. ND 23 NE 9.
E W MacKie 2007