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Submitted by h_fenton on Sunday, 27 March 2011 Page Views: 8281

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Kilphedir Alternative Name: Kilphader Tower
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.673 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Sutherland Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Kildonan
Map Ref: NC99431891
Latitude: 58.147614N Longitude: 3.710214W
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
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-1	Completely destroyed

2 Ambience:

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4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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no data 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
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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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**Kilphedir** submitted by h_fenton : Kilphedir Broch from the northwest. Kite Aerial Photograph 8 May 2011 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broch in Sutherland

Ruins of a broch with preserved lower parts of the walls, remains of an intramural staircase and guard chamber.

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Kilphedir Broch is located near Kilphedir Lodge on the north side of Strath of Kildonan (Strath Ullie). The broch occupies a hillock 110metres above the valley bottom which affords extensive views up and down the strath.

Internally the broch has a diameter of 10metres, the walls are upto 4.7metres thick and stand upto c.2.3metres high (uncertain quite how deep in the rubble the floor is). The entrance passageway faces northwest, there is no sign of an entrance to a guard chamber, but the passageway is fairly choked with rubble. Directly opposite the entrance is a doorway leading into an intra-mural gallery, visitors in the 19th-early20thcentury recorded that the stairs was still extant here but today there is no sign of it despite being able to see down into the intra-mural gallery to a depth of about 60cm. Lintels can be seen crossing the intra-mural gallery linking the inner and outer walls. Internally as well as eternally there is a lot of rubble from the collapse of the walls of the broch, in the mid 19th century it was recorded that the walls were standing upto 15feet (4.6metres) high. Outside the wall the broch is further protected by a bank and large ditch, to the north and south between these outworks and the wall are some further banks dividing the ground (forming enclosures).

Access, there is space to park by the road A867 near the bridge (NC 9895 1863) at Kilphedir. A modern trackway from the road to the east of the bridge leads uphill, follow this for about 400metres you should then see the broch about 250metres away on your right (about 70metres away on your left is the remains of a substantial stone hutcircle). The ground in this area may be boggy (soft) so take care where you walk.

For further information see: http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/7000/details/kilphedir/

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