Scoolary
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Scoolary
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 8809
Site Number ND26NE 3
NGR ND 2982 6847
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8809
- Council Highland
- Parish Canisbay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND26NE 3 2982 6847.
Annotation on a pencil drawing by John Nicolson of an incised stone: 'Schoolary. Beside the Broch/oven'. Dated 1898.
A low artificial mound, apparently covering the ruins of a broch, lies about 30 yds NW of the upper of the two crofts at Scoolary (ND 299 686) RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
There is no trace of any structure at this site (at ND 2982 6847) a low but prominent rise in a grass field, which has a slightly greater content of small stones than elsewhere. Scoolary is deserted, and there is no local knowledge of an antiquity here.
Visited by OS (A A) 17 March 1972.
Publication Account (2007)
ND26 10 SCOOLARY ND/2982 6847
Possible broch in Canisbay, Caithness; there is nothing here but a low rise in the ground.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 26 NE 3: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 16, no. 38.
