Alternative Names Lat 218; Brouan 1
Site type BROCH (POSSIBLE)
Canmore ID 8934
Site Number ND33NW 1
NGR ND 3102 3949
Council HIGHLAND
Parish LATHERON
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District CAITHNESS
Former County CAITHNESS

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Archaeological Notes

ND33NW 1 3102 3949

(ND 3102 3949) Broch (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map, (1971)

A robbed broch represented by a turf-covered stony mound about 10ft high and 50ft in diameter, surrounded at a distance of about 31ft, by a wall about 4 1/2ft high which stands on the inner lip of a ditch about 28ft broad and 3 1/2ft deep from the top of the counterscarp. Except on the W, the ditch has been almost destroyed by cultivation.
RCAHMS 1911; R W Feachem 1963.

A broch, as described. The outer wall-face is visible in the S arc as a single, disconnected course of heavy stone. Ground disturbance and protruding upright slabs in the berm to the W of the broch indicate the presence of outbuildings. No name is known locally.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B), 3 May 1967.

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1980 to 1982

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2007	PUBLICATION ACCOUNT

Project Euan W Mackie Broch Corpus 2

Notes ND33 1 BROUAN 1 (‘Bruan 1’)
ND/3102 3949
Possible broch in Latheron, Caithness, consisting of a conspicuous turf-covered, stony mound about 3.05m (10ft) high and 4.58m (50ft) in diameter (Illus. 7.079); the outer wall could be seen in the south arc as a single, disconnected course of heavy stones [1]. The broch mound appears to be sitting on a platform some 42m in diameter with a number of orthostats visible on its outer edge [4]. This has been surrounded by a ditch and a counterscarp bank which survive on north-west and north-east sides [4].

Sources: 1. NMRS site no. ND 33 NW 1: 2. RCAHMS 1911b, 52, no. 193: 3. Feachem 1963, 164: 4. Mercer 1985, no. WAR 113 and fig. 60.
E W MacKie 2007

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Books and References

Feachem, R (1963b) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London
Page(s): 164 Held at RCAHMS E.2.FEA

MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V Oxford
Page(s): 445 Held at RCAHMS E.9.1.MAC

RCAHMS (1911b) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness, London
Page(s): 52, No. 193 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV(3)

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