Mains Of Bowertower
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mains Of Bowertower
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 8854
Site Number ND26SW 5
NGR ND 2279 6179
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Bower
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND26SW 5 2279 6179.
(ND 2279 6179) A mound containing ruins, possibly those of a broch, lies in a cultivated field about 200 yds SW of Mains of Bowertower. Much of the mound has been removed and the outline is quite indefinite.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
This irregular, grass-covered mound is as described above, except that no ruins of a broch can be seen. It is now roughly triangular, measuring some 22.0m NW-SE by 14.0m transversely and 1.3m in height. Several stones lie on rop and around the mound. Due to extensive mutilation it is now impossible to determine the nature of this mound.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 November 1965
(ND 2279 6179) Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, (1970)
This severely depleted mound is as described by previous OS field investigator.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 May 1982
Mound (ND 2282 6180). Dimensions: 20 x 14m. Grassy sub-circular mound 0.45m high, eroded on the W side by poughing.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
Publication Account (2007)
ND26 1 BOWERTOWER ('Mains of Bowertower')
ND/2279 6179
Possible broch in Bower, Caithness, consisting of a grass-covered mound in a field which has been badly mutilated. There are no traces of a building.
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 26 SW 5: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 6, no. 19.
E W MacKie 2007
