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Carn Liath
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2796
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2796 (2796)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Sutherland
- Parish, community, or townland
- Golspie
- National Grid reference
- NC 8704 0137
- Latitude
- 57.98726
- Longitude
- -3.91215
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1769); Excavation (1868); Other (1872); Other (1909); Other (1935); Other (1962); Other (1963); Other (1971); Excavation (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975); Excavation (1984); Excavation (1986); Excavation (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90060
- HER
- Highland HER MHG10872
- National record
- record NC 80 SE 4; monument 6546
- Wikidata
- Q31100914
Sources
References
- Joass, J M (1890) 'The brochs or "Pictish Towers" of Cinn-Trolla, Carn-Liath, and Craig-Carril, in Sutherland, with notes on other northern brochs'. Archaeol Scot 5 (1890), 95-130
- Pennant, T A Tour in Scotland MDCCLXIX (2nd ed). R White: London
- Love, P (1984) 'Cairnliath (Golspie p) Broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1984), 15-16
- Love, P (1986) 'Cairnliath (Golspie p) Broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1986), 18
- Love, P (1987) 'Carn Liath (Golspie parish) Broch'. Disc Exc Scot (1987), 30
- Love, P (1988) 'Recent excavations at Carn Liath broch, Golspie, Sutherland'. Glasgow Archaeol J 15 (1988), 157-69
- MacKie, E W (2007) The Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c.700 BC-AD 500: architecture and material culture, the Northern and Southern Mainland and the Western Islands, BAR British series 444(II), 444(1), 2 V. BAR: Oxford
- RCAHMS (1911) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Second report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Sutherland. HMSO: Edinburgh