Scheduled Monument

Ach a' Chuil, broch 700m W of E end of Loch NaverSM1880

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
19/11/1938
Last Date Amended
29/03/2001
Type
Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Local Authority
Highland
Parish
Farr
NGR
NC 65855 38132
Coordinates
265855, 938132

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a broch (a fortification of Iron Age date) and adjacent remains. The broch itself is already scheduled, but this proposal extends protection to the adjacent remains, which appear to be associated outer defences.

The broch stands on a small promontory on the S shore of Loch Naver. It is a little over 15m in diameter, and built of large blocks of local stone. On the NW side its outer face is still visible, and the entrance appears to have been from the SE. On the landward side of the broch is a low curving wall with a causeway on the SE. This causeway crosses a shallow boggy ditch and rises to a second line of outer walling, surviving as a row of large stones. There are other large stones and traces of walls on the promontory which may also be associated with the broch.

The area now to be scheduled is irregular on plan, to include the broch, its outer works and an area around and between them in which evidence relating to the monument's construction and use is likely to survive. It is bounded on the N by the shore of the loch, on the W by the lowest stretch of a small stream and elsewhere by a line drawn about 40m out from the outer edge of the broch mound. It measures a maximum of 72m N-S by 55m E-W and is shown in red on the accompanying map extract.

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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.

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