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Submitted by Andy B on Wednesday, 21 April 2010 Page Views: 2878

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Strath Tollidh
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.703 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Caithness Type: Broch or Nuraghe

Map Ref: NH705990
Latitude: 57.961387N Longitude: 4.190351W
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

2 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

3 Access:

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.

2 Accuracy:

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
0	no data

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Broch in Caithness

The two straths meet here, Strath Carnaig and Strath Tollidh.
Not much left of the Broch but I am sure that the stone would have been used in the surrounding dry stane wall.
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

NH7099 : A Broch in Strath Tollaidh by Donald H Bain — by Donald H Bain
©2007(licence)

NH7099 : Looking down from the Broch in Strath Tollidh by Donald H Bain — by Donald H Bain
©2007(licence)

NH7099 : The Strath Tollaidh by Ian Balcombe — by Ian Balcombe
©2011(licence)

NH7099 : Footbridge over the Allt Lochain iain Bhuidhe by John Ferguson — by John Ferguson
©2012(licence)

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