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<< Our Photo Pages >> Dun Telve - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Highlands

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 April 2001  Page Views: 18343

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Dun Telve
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 5.2 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Highlands Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Glenelg  Nearest Village: Glenelg
Map Ref: NG829172  Landranger Map Number: 33
Latitude: 57.194018N  Longitude: 5.595009W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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SolarMegalith visited on 17th Jun 2015 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5

SandyG visited on 28th Aug 2014 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 5

jeffrep visited on 28th May 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 5 Of the three brochs that lie inland along the road from Glenelg, the largest of these is Dun Telve (or the Lower Broch), the best preserved broch in mainland Scotland and the second best preserved in Scotland as a whole after the Mousa Broch in Shetland. Dun Telve's standing external wall is over 30 feet high. As described by recent visitors, "In the highest part of the wall...two scarcement ledges are visible: the upper one is a unique survival in Scottish brochs and probably supported a conical roof. The wall tapers inwards, in the distinctive 'cooling-tower' profile like Mousa Broch in Shetland. To the left of the entrance a doorway leads into a corbelled cell and a stone stairway. Four galleries and part of a fifth survive in the thickness of the wall. The voids visible in the inner face of the wall could have been used to ventilate and light the upper galleries. Outside the broch are traces of later buildings."

megalithicmatt visited on 13th Sep 2005 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Brief visit in the rain. Grey grey greyness...

Andy B hamish MegalithJunkie have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.25 Ambience: 4.25 Access: 4.75

Dun Telve
Dun Telve submitted by Andy B : From the Gleann Beag road near Corrary. Copyright John Allan and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Dun Telve Broch is located on a minor road southeast of the village of Glenelg, which can be reached from the Isle of Skye in the west by the Kylerhea ferry or from the east on the "Old Military Road" off the A87 at Shiel Bridge, in Highland, Scotland.

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Dun Telve submitted by SandyG : The interior. View from south east (28th August 2014). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Telve submitted by Andy B : Taken in about 1997 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Telve submitted by andy_h : Broch at Dun Telve, Glen Elg, Highlands. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Telve submitted by Postman : Dun Telve (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Dun Telve submitted by SolarMegalith : General view of Dun Telve broch (photo taken on June 2015). (3 comments)

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Dun Telve submitted by Andy B : Taken in about 1997

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Dun Telve submitted by hamish : Dun Telve, a must to visit if you are in the area.

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Dun Telve submitted by SolarMegalith : Intra-mural staircase of Dun Telve broch (photo taken on June 2015).

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Dun Telve submitted by SolarMegalith : The entrance to Dun Telve broch - view from the west (photo taken on June 2015).

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Dun Telve submitted by SandyG : Building nestling at the foot of the broch wall. View from the south west (28th August 2014).

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Dun Telve submitted by SandyG : Well protected broch entrance passage. View from west (28th August 2014).

Dun Telve
Dun Telve submitted by jeffrep : Dun Telve Broch is located on a minor road southeast of the village of Glenelg, which can be reached from the Isle of Skye in the west by the Kylerhea ferry or from the east on the "Old Military Road" off the A87 at Shiel Bridge, in Highland, Scotland.

Dun Telve
Dun Telve submitted by durhamnature : Drawing of the broch from "Bronze Age Antiquities" via archive.org

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Dun Telve submitted by hamish : The Pictish Broch Dun Telve in Gleann Beag.A magnificent piece of engineering. I would have liked to have seen it in its day.

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Dun Telve submitted by Postman : Stairs to nowhere, now.

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Dun Telve submitted by Postman : Dun Telve

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Dun Telve submitted by Postman

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Dun Telve submitted by SandyG : View from east (28th August 2014).

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Dun Telve submitted by andy_h : Inside broch at Dun Telve, Glen Elg, Highlands.

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Re: Dun Telve Street View by Anonymous on Friday, 20 May 2011
Have been here twice. A very peaceful and (in and even out of context) parklike site. Very well-preserved, I'd say as well, actually, as the Broch of Mousa or Dun Carloway. And "untouched," unlike the broch on Shetland mainland opposite the Safeway (whose name I clearlt forget).

But a hell of a drive off the main road to get to it, with multiple switchbacks.. Really needed a pint at the Glen Elg post-visit. (Innkeeper said he knew we'd be back when he saw us drive past!) Also, this "diversion"led us to take the Glen Elg ferry to Skye, which was a marvellous way of getting there.
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Re: Dun Telve Street View by davidx on Wednesday, 21 April 2010
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This broch and nearby Dun Troddan are very well covered on http://www.glenelg.co.uk/places/glenelg_brochs.shtml
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Dun Telve Street View by golux on Thursday, 18 March 2010
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Re: Dun Telve by Anonymous on Tuesday, 14 March 2006
We visited and videod Dun Telve in 1992 and were fascinated. Just tonight we watched the video again. We wonder what it looked like when it was first built. It is difficult to figure that out. Are there any drawings that show it? Thanks. Bruce & Betty France in Wisconsin USA
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    Re: Dun Telve by Anonymous on Thursday, 11 December 2008


    There is a full account of Dun Telve, including references to early descriptions (when the broch was better preserved) in ––

    Euan W MacKie 2007 The roundhouses, brochs and wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC to AD 500: architecture and material culture. Part 2: the mainland and the western islands. British Archaeological Reports 444: Oxford.
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