Scheduled Monument

Upper Latheron, broch 230m E ofSM598

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
16/06/1939
Last Date Amended
31/10/2000
Type
Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Local Authority
Highland
Parish
Latheron
NGR
ND 18250 31867
Coordinates
318250, 931867

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a broch and associated structures. The broch is already scheduled, but this re-scheduling extends protection to the surrounding remains.

The broch survives as a substantial mound up to 3m high, built on a sloping site. Its outer face is visible for a long stretch on the E side, with up to 4 course of masonry showing. To both the SE and the NW are extensive traces of other, ruined, structures which may be of contemporary date.

The area now to be scheduled is oval and measures a maximum of 40m NE-SW by 60m NW-SE, to include the broch mound and surrounding remains and an area around them in which further remains may be expected to survive. The area is shown in red on the accompanying map extract.

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About Scheduled Monuments

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

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).

The format of scheduled monument records has changed over time. Earlier records will usually be brief. Some information will not have been recorded and the map will not be to current standards. Even if what is described and what is mapped has changed, the monument is still scheduled.

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