MHG66115 - Clearance cairn - Dun Buidhe
Summary
A large clearance-heap made up from mixed large boulders and smaller rubble: this may represent the remains of the broch
Type and Period (1)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
A rapid coastal zone assessment survey was conducted by GUARD in the Autumn of 1997 commissioned by Historic Scotland from the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project based at the University of Glasgow.
On a flat-topped grassy mound at the base of a gentle grassy slope, overlooking a rocky shore lies the site of a broch, demolished in 1840, as noted in the NIvIRS. The mound on which the broch stood is c 80 m in diameter, apparently natural and shows no signs of visible structural remains. About 50 m to the SW is a large clearance-heap made up from mixed large boulders and smaller rubble: this may represent the remains of the broch. Further rubble has been dumped down-slope at the shore edge, immediately SE of the site. <1>
Sources/Archives (6)
- --- SHG1182 Text/Publication/Article: Horsburgh, J. 1870. 'Notes of cromlechs, duns, hut-circles, chambered cairns, and other remains, in the County of Sutherland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 7, 1866-8, pp 271-9. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 277.
- --- SHG1281 Text/Publication/Article: Anderson, J. & Shearer, R.I.. 1873. Notice of the excavation of the brochs of Yarhouse, Brounaben, Bowermadden, Old Stirkake, and Dunbeath in Caithness, with remarks on the period of the brochs, and an appendix, containing a Collected list of the Brochs of Scotland, and Early notices of man. Archaeologia Scotica Vol. 5. 131-98. 191 ( appendix).
- --- SHG2606 Text/Publication/Volume: Sir John Sinclair (ed.). 1791-9. The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes. 520.
- --- SHG3367 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No, 35, 24.
- <1> SHG21099 Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Brady, K. & Morris, C.D.. 1997. North Sutherland Survey: Coastal Zone Assessment Kyle of Durness to Torrisdale Bay. Glasgow University (GUARD). 30/01/1998. . p.178 Site 41. XY
- <2> SHG29455 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph/Vertical: Get Mapping. 2023. Getmapping aerial photography 2023. XY
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 5817 6037 (129m by 33m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NC56SE |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | TONGUE |
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