Monument record MHG39857 - Cup Marked Stone, Broch, Gills

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 3204 7237 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND37SW
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish CANISBAY
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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Full Description

Broch, Gills: About half a mile S of road from Mey to Canisbay church, and 100 yds E of road through township of Gills, is a low mound under cultivation, which is evidently site of a broch. It has been much quarried for stones. A rotary quern was found in it, RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.

The site of this probable broch is at ND 3204 7238, in S margin of a field. It is a ploughed-over, grass-covered mound measuring 30m N-S by 22m transversely and 0.7m high. The mound is similar to authenticated sites of brochs.
Surveyed at 1:2500. Visited by OS (J M) 7 July 1982.

Cup marked stone from this site reported at Nybster. (Inv.No.576)

Sources/Archives (1)

  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1911. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Third report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Caithness. . 20, No. 53.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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