Gills
Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Site Name Gills
Classification Broch (Iron Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 9414
Site Number ND37SW 3
NGR ND 3204 7238
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Canisbay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND37SW 3 3204 7238.
Broch, Gills: About half a mile S of the road from Mey to Canisbay church, and 100 yds E of the road through the township of Gills, is a low mound under cultivation, which is evidently the site of a broch. It has been much quarried for stones. A rotary quern was found in it, RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
The site of this probable broch is at ND 3204 7238, in the S margin of a field. It is a ploughed-over, grass-covered mound measuring 30.0m N-S by 22.0m transversely and 0.7m high. The mound is similar to authenticated sites of brochs.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 7 July 1982.
Cup marked stone from this site reported at Nybster. (Inv.No.576)
Publication Account (2007)
ND37 2 GILLS ND/3204 7238
Possible broch in Canisbay, Caithness, consisting of a ploughed-over mound in a field measuring about 30m by 22m and 0.7m high; it had been quarried for stones and a rotary quern was found in it [2].
Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 37 SW 3: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 20, no. 53.
E W MacKie 2007