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Latitude: 58.2547 / 58°15'17"N
Longitude: -3.4722 / 3°28'20"W
OS Eastings: 313696
OS Northings: 930504
OS Grid: ND136305
Mapcode National: GBR K6SX.B4Y
Mapcode Global: WH5D3.MSR6
Entry Name: Achorn, broch 200m NW of
Scheduled Date: 30 June 1939
Last Amended: 1 December 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM511
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Location: Latheron
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
This monument consists of the remains of a broch. The surviving remains form a large mutilated mound of earth and stone measuring 30m N-S by 27m E-W and about 3.5m high on the N side. A small trench has been dug about 6m SE from the centre of the mound and this has revealed one side of a gallery, or room, in the width of the broch wall. The area to be scheduled measures 50m in diameter, to include the broch and an area around in which traces of activities associated with its construction and occupation will survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential contribution to an understanding of prehistoric settlement and defensive architecture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The site is RCAHMS number ND 13 SW 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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