<< Our Photo Pages >> Wester Livilands - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Stirling
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DigsSite Name: Wester LivilandsCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.296 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Stirling Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Stirling
Map Ref: NS7979692369
Latitude: 56.108906N Longitude: 3.934444W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Some tantalising possible fragments have been found (see the photos for more details). If confirmed, this broch will join the few known brochs such as Coldoch, Leckie and Tappoch south of the Highland Line.
First discovered and described in 1872 by archaeologist Christian Maclagan, Scotland’s first female archaeologist, the broch has been ignored and left unexcavated for nearly 150 years. Because women were not allowed to become members of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Maclagan had to remain content to be a Lady Associate: of the society - her paper only accepted because it was transcribed by a man.
Thought to be one of the later brochs in Central Scotland along with Leckie, Tabboch and Coldoch, Maclagan described the broch’s location as Livilands. There are two Livilands in Stirling, Easter and Wester, however the discovery of an unfinished rotary quern has led archaeologists to believe the broch’s location is at Wester Livilands where “ a review of the historic mapping indicates that Wester Livilands had a designed landscape comprising two circular banks that resemble ramparts. A site inspection identified the presence of substantial horizontal masonry…
From Maclagan’s 1872 paper: “there has stood another of the round houses, which seems to have had three circular walls with probably 20 feet of space between each of them. The stones of these walls are all gone, but the mark where their foundations had been is sufficiently distinct. The area of the central chamber had apparently been about 50 feet in diameter. It is situated on a part of that terrace or ancient sea-beach which is found around almost the whole valley of the Forth, and on which elevation many of those round houses are built. Its height is about 40 feet.’
Scotland’s Lost Broch website: Christian Maclagan and Stirling’s Lost Broch
Scotland’s Lost Broch facebook page: Stirling’s Lost Broch
DigVentures crowdfunding site: Lost Broch 2016
Canmore site for the rotary quern: Canmore ID 2221116
BBC article: Search for Stirling's lost Iron Age roundhouse
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