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Latitude: 58.3751 / 58°22'30"N
Longitude: -3.1492 / 3°8'57"W
OS Eastings: 332881
OS Northings: 943534
OS Grid: ND328435
Mapcode National: GBR L6LL.G3N
Mapcode Global: WH6DT.LRLG
Entry Name: Borrowston, broch 260m S of
Scheduled Date: 11 September 1939
Last Amended: 25 October 2005
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM527
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Wick
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
The monument comprises the remains of a broch, a monumental stone structure of the Iron Age. The monument was first scheduled in 1939 but an inadequate area was included to protect all of the archaeological remains. The present rescheduling rectifies this.
The monument is visible as a circular turf covered mound, measuring 36m in diameter and c. 4m in height. Small patches of erosion have revealed sections of possible walling on the upper slopes.
The area to be scheduled is a circle 55m in diameter centred on the centre of the broch to include the broch and an area around in which evidence relating to its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as the remains of an Iron Age broch which offers considerable potential to provide information on the nature of settlement and defensive architecture during this period of prehistory.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
The monument is recorded by RCAHMS as ND34 SW 8.
RCAHMS 1911, THIRD REPORT AND INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE COUNTY OF CAITHNESS, Edinburgh, HMSO, 152, No. 510.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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