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Latitude: 57.4453 / 57°26'43"N
Longitude: -4.4315 / 4°25'53"W
OS Eastings: 254173
OS Northings: 842053
OS Grid: NH541420
Mapcode National: GBR H9F1.GTQ
Mapcode Global: WH3FF.W4Y6
Entry Name: Castle Spynie,broch
Scheduled Date: 6 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4653
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Kiltarlity and Convinth
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument comprises the remains of a broch, measuring overall 19.5m in diameter within a wall measuring 4.0m wide and 1.0m high with inner and outer faces occasionally visible. The entrance is in the south west. Below the broch on the north east is an outer defence consisting of a line of boulders and a rampart and ditch. To the south west of the broch another ditch provides added defence. The area to be scheduled measures 100m NE-SW by 60m transversely, to include the broch, its outworks and an area around them in which traces of activity associated with their use will survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The site is of national importance because it is a good and well preserved example of an Iron Age broch; it is of particular interest because of the survival of outer defensive works, which utilise natural rock outcrops. It has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of Iron Age settlement and the development of brochs.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NH 54 SW 9.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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