Description

The monument to be scheduled consists of the foundations of a broch (a circular Iron Age fortification) set within an oval enclosure. The area to be scheduled is irregular, with maximum dimensions of 80m N-S by 60m E-W, as delineated in red on the attached plan.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance as one of a small and widely scattered group of brochs found outwith the main distribution of such sites. These sites have been called upon to support a variety of social and potential arguments concerning the nature of the later Scottish Iron Age, and it is important that no single site be lost before the opportunity to investigate it is lost.

The particular site proposed here occupies a gap between groupings of brochs in Central and Borders regions, and is therefore of particular interest. The site is in a dilapidated but not entirely destroyed condition, and will preserve within it evidence for its date and method of construction and manner of use.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Sources

Bibliography

RCAHMS records the monument as NS 94 NE 9.

Reference:

RCAHMS (1978a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments, Edinburgh, 109-10, No. 244.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland