Scheduled Monument

Golsary, broch on W bank of Burn of Golsary, Rumster ForestSM550

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
26/09/1934
Last Date Amended
11/12/2002
Type
Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Local Authority
Highland
Parish
Latheron
NGR
ND 20566 37487
Coordinates
320566, 937487

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a broch, a defended settlement of Iron Age date. The broch was originally scheduled in 1934, but the area was inadequate to protect the full extent of the monument and omitted the associated outer defences and land adjacent with high archaeological potential. The present re-scheduling rectifies this.

The broch is set on an elongated natural mound near the W bank of the Burn of Golsary, about 30m S of a ruined croft. It is represented by a substantial grass-grown mound of stone, about 20m across and standing up to 3.5m high, which almost certainly conceals considerable surviving structural masonry and occupation deposits. Traces of two ditches and banks cut across the neck of the natural mound, and are probably contemporary outer defensive works.

The area to be scheduled is circular in shape, 40m in diameter, centred on the top of the broch mound, to include the broch and an area around it in which associated archaeological remains would be expected to survive. This area is indicated in red on the accompanying map.

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We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

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.

We schedule sites and monuments that are found to be of national importance using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Scheduled monument records provide an indication of the national importance of the scheduled monument which has been identified by the description and map. The description and map (see ‘legal documents’ above) showing the scheduled area is the designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The statement of national importance and additional information provided are supplementary and provided for general information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within the statement of national importance or additional information. These records are not definitive historical or archaeological accounts or a complete description of the monument(s).

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