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Loch Poll An Dunain

Broch

Fieldnotes

As Thelonious says, find the signpost and you'll find the broch situated on the banks of the Horse Sound. I'd parked at the north end of Achiltibuie to walk down the minor road to revisit a few places last visited and worked at many years ago. Nothing much has changed and probably nothing will.

I often wonder if a full scale excavation clearing out rubble, turf, various rubbish, would reveal much more here. Tantalising glimpses of well built still remain and as can be seen by turf covering the broch walls there is still a considerable amount of the site left. The nearby houses and walls, ruins themselves, have been built out of broch stone.

A bit of a what if site, but you never know what's underneath.

Visited 13/10/2020
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
28th October 2020ce

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