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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Tulach Buaile A' ChroicCountry: Scotland County: Caithness Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Halkirk Nearest Village: Westerdale
Map Ref: ND12995186
Latitude: 58.446331N Longitude: 3.492351W
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 |
0 | no data |
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Broch in Caithness
3,5 m high turf-covered mound which is remain of a broch. According to the reports from 1965 in it's NW part remains of the walls were visible, but now they are gone.
This site is recorded as Canmore ID 8356, an entry from 1981 reading: "Tulach Buaile a' Chroic applies to the remains of a broch, apparent as a turf-covered mound in the angle of an old river terrace in the N corner of a field. The mound measures 27.0m NW-SE by 24.0m transversely and stands, on the E half, 3.0m high; the W half has been quarried into leaving a level grassy area delimited by a well-defined scarp, 1.5m high, in the NW. No walling is evident. On the SE side of the mound a trench-like depression suggests that there may have been a ditch".
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