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Latitude: 58.4673 / 58°28'2"N
Longitude: -3.3028 / 3°18'9"W
OS Eastings: 324100
OS Northings: 953968
OS Grid: ND241539
Mapcode National: GBR L66B.XFM
Mapcode Global: WH6DC.7FHQ
Entry Name: Nether Banks, broch 220m NNE of
Scheduled Date: 18 October 1938
Last Amended: 8 November 2005
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM609
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Watten
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
The monument comprises the remains of a broch. The monument was first scheduled in 1938 but an inadequate area was included to protect all of the archaeological remains. The present rescheduling rectifies this. The name of the monument has been changed.
The monument is visible as a turf covered mound, measuring 29 m N-S by 22m transversely, with a maximum height of 3m. Stonework is visible on the SE close to the top of the mound. A number of large boulders exposed at the base of the mound to the S and E may be the remains of an outer encircling wall.
The area to be scheduled is a circle 40m 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 is likely to 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 has 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 ND 125 SW 13.
RCAHMS 1911, THIRD REPORT AND INVENTORY OF MONUMENTS AND CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE COUNTY OF CAITHNESS, Edinburgh, HMSO, 60-1, No. 222.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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