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<< Our Photo Pages >> Leckie Broch - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Stirling

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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Leckie Broch
Country: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Stirling  Nearest Village: Gargunnock
Map Ref: NS6925494002
Latitude: 56.120797N  Longitude: 4.104635W
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by cosmic : Doorway? (Vote or comment on this photo)
Borch in Stirlingshire This is another of the Central Belt brochs (along with Torwood, Buchlyvie and Coldoch). Unlike Coldoch it was intended to offer protection from the North. It is situated just above the confluence of two streams with deep gullies.

This is another of the Central Belt brochs (along with Torwood, Buchlyvie and Coldoch). Unlike Coldoch it was intended to offer protection from the North. It is situated just above the confluence of two streams with deep gullies.

Like Buchlyvie it seems to have been built/occupied in 1st-2nd Century AD and is of a similar size.

From the track to Knock-o-Ronald follow path up East side of Leckie burn. After about 100m (and just before small footbridge) take faint path going down to stepping stones and cross on to promontory.

The site is very overgrown with rhododendrums.

For more information see Canmore ID 45379 which adds in 1978: "Excavation has shown that a fort succeeded a broch on this steep-sided promontory. Finds from the site, which have been deposited in the Hunterian Museum, and C.14 dating, indicate a limited life span for both fortifications in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. An outcrop of rock at the N end of the promontory is cup-marked."

Note: Euan MacKie: Brochs and the Empire: The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie broch excavations, details are in the comments on our page
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Leckie Broch submitted by SolarMegalith : Partly exposed wall structure (photo taken on May 2017). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by SolarMegalith : Masonry in the NE part of Leckie broch (photo taken on May 2017). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Leckie Broch submitted by SolarMegalith : Large stone blocks (including the cup-marked sone, see Leckie 1 entry) in the southern part of the broch (photo taken on May 2017). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Leckie Broch submitted by SolarMegalith : Remains of masonry in the eastern part of the broch (photo taken on May 2017). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by cosmic : Tallest part (North).

Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by cosmic : Another view inside.

Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by cosmic : View of interior.

Leckie Broch
Leckie Broch submitted by cosmic : Part of fallen masonry.

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Brochs and the Empire: The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland by Andy B on Tuesday, 31 January 2017
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Brochs and the Empire: The impact of Rome on Iron Age Scotland as seen in the Leckie broch excavations. Author: Euan W. MacKie

The excavation of the Leckie Iron Age broch in Stirlingshire, Scotland, took place during the 1970’s after the author had been asked to organise the work by a local archaeological society. At that stage the author did not consider – despite its location – that the site might vividly reflect the expansion of the Roman Empire into southern Scotland in the late first century AD. For various reasons the final report was not written until about thirty years after the fieldwork finished and by then the quality and significance of the Roman finds was much better understood, thanks to the analysis of them by experts. Many of them seemed like gifts to the broch chief, despite the clear evidence of the violent destruction of the broch at a later date.

The Roman author Tacitus gave a detailed account of Governor Agricola’s campaigns in southern Scotland and pointed out that he sometimes tried to make friends with local chiefs before invading their territories, to avoid un-necessary casualties. This also applied to the first Roman naval excursion up the west coast and explains the evidence from Dun Ardtreck, Skye, excavated in the 1960’s. This site was also destroyed later and this could reflect the later hostile voyage of the navy after the battle of Mons Graupius which occurred after a few years of campaigning. Thus Rome’s accounts can allow one to understand the history of some native sites much more vividly.

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The Leckie broch - Euan W MacKie and finds in the Hunterian Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 08 October 2013
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The Leckie broch, Stirlingshire: an interim report Euan W MacKie, BA, PhD, FSA

Glasgow Archaeological Journal. Volume 9, Page 60-72 DOI 10.3366/gas.1982.9.9.60, ISSN 1471-5767, Available Online 1982.

Some of the results of the excavation of the broch at Leckie between 1970 and 1978 are briefly described. The clear stratigraphy and the many closely dateable Roman finds allow new conclusions to be drawn about the date of some Iron Age artefacts and about the origin of the southern Scottish brochs.

For example it seems now that some of these brochs were built, presumably with the approval of the Roman Army, during the Flavian period (AD 80–100) and probably soon after Agricola's recall. The richness of the finds at Leckie, and the many valuable imported items, support the view that the southern broch builders were originally allies of Rome. Later, soon after the start of the Antonine period, things became different and this broch, probably with others, was destroyed – possibly by the Roman forces.

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Impact on the Scottish Iron Age of the discoveries at Leckie broch
Glasgow Archaeological Journal. Volume 14, Page 1-18 DOI 10.3366/gas.1987.14.14.1, ISSN 1471-5767, Available Online 1987.

The paper reviews some of the evidence for the nature of the broch phenomenon and its origins, using the discoveries at Leckie broch as a starting point. It is concluded that, contrary to a commonly held view, there is evidence for a new phase of contact of some kind between Atlantic Scotland and distant regions like southern England, Ireland and Brittany, a phase which defines the middle Iron Age and sees the onset of the broch-building cultures. As far as the nature of broch society is concerned, it is becoming increasingly clear that the buildings themselves were the defended farmhouses of a minor tribal aristocracy each having the allegiance of several hundred tribesmen and women, and presumably themselves owing allegiance to a tribal chief.

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Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery has 35 records relating to LECKIE_GRP9 in the collections. (pins, brooches, rings, beads, studs etc)

http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/foxweb/huntsearch/SummaryResults.fwx?collection=all&Searchterm=LECKIE_GRP9*&browsemode=on&browseset=LECKIE_GRP9
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    Re: The Leckie broch - Euan W MacKie and finds in the Hunterian Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 31 January 2017
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    A large array of locally-manufactured goods was found at Leckie broch, Stirlingshire. Iron sheep shears confirm the production of wool for textile manufacture, spindle whorls and loom weights were used for weaving, and ochre (yellow) and haematite (red) pigments produced dyes. Made in Britain, the jewellery includes enamelled pieces, glass beads and bracelets popular with both Iron Age peoples and Romans. These valuable personal adornments might have highlighted the status, power and wealth of the owner. Board games arrived in Scotland with the Romans and Scottish sandstone playing counters and many Roman objects were recovered from Leckie.
    http://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/archaeologyandworldcultures/archaeology/ironagescotland/

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