Looking SE along the scarcement ledge which supported a wooden floor inside Rhiroy broch on the hillside above W shore of Loch Broom, Wester Ross.

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Looking SE along the scarcement ledge which supported a wooden floor or gallery inside Rhiroy broch on hillside above the W shore of Loch Broom. Incomplete remains of an Iron Age fort surrounded by modern sheep pens & excavation stone dumps. Excavated 1968 by Euan MacKie who considered it a semibroch: a dun with broch-like features. Possibly was a full broch whose downhill galleried wall was on a solid base & has fallen over the eroded cliff.

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Location: Rhiroy Broch, Loggie, Loch Broom, Wester Ross, Highland, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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