Scheduled Monument

Tulloch Turnal, broch 500m WNW of Turnal Rock, LangwellSM3440

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
15/08/1974
Last Date Amended
02/06/2000
Supplementary Information Updated
13/11/2018
Type
Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
Local Authority
Highland
Planning Authority
Highland
Parish
Latheron
NGR
ND 09044 22857
Coordinates
309044, 922857

Description

The monument comprises the remains of a broch, a drystone-built, fortified dwelling of Iron Age date. It is already scheduled, but the scheduled area does not cover all of the area of archaeological importance. This proposal rectifies the position.

The broch stands immediately to the S of an estate track. It stands about 2m high and is about 14m in diameter. Two courses of the outer wall face can be seen in places. No detail is visible in the interior, although a slight depression hints at the entrance being on the S side. There is an external ditch and bank on the E side, and this may once have extended around the N side of the broch, although its traces have been removed by later construction activity.

The area now to be scheduled is semi-circular, 60m in diameter, with the S side of the track as its N edge. This includes the broch and the slight traces of outer defences as well as an area around them in which evidence relating to their construction and use may survive. The area is marked 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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