Carn Liath (Sutherland)
The Iron Age Broch (tower) Carn Liath ( German "gray hill" ) in Sutherland in Scotland is located on the seaside slope next to the road from Dornoch Firth via Golspie and Brora to Wick .
The brochure has a separate outer wall. A corridor leads from the entrance in the wall to the Broche entrance. There is evidence of a door in the access to the broch, and there was probably a gate in the outer wall. The access to the broch has a thick fall . A side opening in the meter-wide entrance leads to a staircase within the double-shell Broch wall. The once almost completely demolished walls have been restored to a height of 3.5 m.
Other buildings were squeezed into the narrow space between the broch and the outer wall. Some were contemporary, others were from a time when the brochure was closed. Those to the west of the Ganges have been particularly well researched. Artifacts , including a copy of a silver Roman fibula from the 4th or 5th century, show that the site was used up to this time.
- Carn Liath
literature
- Robert Gourlay, Sutherland - a historical guide , Birlinn, Edinburgh, 1996 ISBN 1-874744-44-0
- JNG Ritchie: Brochs of Scotland . Princes Risborough, Shire Archeology secund edition 1998, ISBN 0-7478-0389-7 pp. 33, 45, 48
Web links
- Entry on Carn Liath in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 57 ° 59 ′ 13.81 " N , 3 ° 54 ′ 43.7" W.