Scheduled Monument
Brae of Boquhapple, broch 300m NE ofSM4447
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
- 01/03/1988
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 31/08/2021
- Type
- Prehistoric domestic and defensive: broch
- Local Authority
- Stirling
- Parish
- Kilmadock
- NGR
- NN 65920 02044
- Coordinates
- 265920, 702044
Description
The monument is a broch, a domestic structure of the Iron Age some 1800 to 2200 years old. It is defended by double earth and stone banks, fronted by ditches, giving added protection on the N, S and W (although now not visible on the W). Immediately to the E lies the Cessintully Burn, which would have provided protection on that side. The rubble mound which represents the remains of the broch (and within which it will survive intact to a height of at least 3m) is about 30m in diameter.
An area measuring a maximum of 100m N-S by 80m transversely, bounded on the E by the Cessintully Burn, is proposed for scheduling, to include the broch, its outworks and an area around in which traces of activity associated with their construction and use may survive.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved example of a southern broch; there are very few brochs in southern Scotland, especially with outwork defences surviving. The monument is of particular importance because it has escaped damage. The monument has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of the construction and use of brochs in southern Scotland. It also has the potential, taken with the other brochs and Iron Age sites in the region, to enhance considerably our understanding of the phenomenon of the southern Scottish brochs, and of the development of later Iron Age settlement, economy and society in central Scotland.
References
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