Scheduled Monument

Kilearnan, broch 800m WSW ofSM1869

Status: Designated

Documents

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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

Summary

Date Added
18/10/1938
Last Date Amended
13/09/2001
Supplementary Information Updated
20/11/2018
Type
Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Local Authority
Highland
Parish
Kildonan
NGR
NC 92160 18868
Coordinates
292160, 918868

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a broch, a fortified dwelling of Iron Age date, with a surrounding rampart and ditch. The broch was scheduled in 1938, but the area scheduled at that time was inadequate to protect the full area of archaeological importance, hence this extension.

The broch survives as a large rubble mound, up to 3m high on the N and falling steeply towards a burn on the S side. Two short stretches of inner wall face are visible, suggesting an internal diameter around 10m, and the thickness of the wall appears to have been just less than 5m. The entrance may have been on the E. To the SW, just outside the broch, earthfast stones suggest some form of outer structure or revetment. A rampart and ditch runs round the outside of the broch from the SE through NE to the NW. This rampart has been partly defaced by an old track.

The area now to be scheduled is a circle 40m in diameter and centred on the centre of the broch mound, to include the broch, its outer works and an area of ground within which related evidence is likely to survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is of national importance as a good example of a broch with outer defences. It has the potential to provide important evidence relating to later prehistoric defensive architecture and domestic economy.

References

Bibliography

RAHMS record the site as NC91NW 2.

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Scheduling is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for monuments and archaeological sites of national importance as set out in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

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