Ferry Wood

Also known as:
Loch Shin
Nearest town:
Dornoch (29km E)
OS reference:
NC57190679
OS sheet:
16
Latitude:
58° 1' 38.54 N
Longitude:
4° 25' 6.36 W
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Image of Ferry Wood (Broch) by LesHamilton

This is the only stretch of semi-contiguous walling remaining at Ferry Wood.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 17, 2022
Image of Ferry Wood (Broch) by A R Cane

Last of the big stones of what must have been a ‘broch with a view’.

Image credit: A R Cane
A R Cane
A R Cane Nov 23, 2017
Image of Ferry Wood (Broch) by thelonious

04/05/2017 – Went looking for a broch in trees! Bit of a change since tsc’s visit.

thelonious
thelonious May 10, 2017
Image of Ferry Wood (Broch) by thesweetcheat

Looking towards The Ord and its chambered cairns from the site.

Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 27, 2014

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Ferry Wood

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 17, 2022

Visited: June 13, 2022

Ferry Wood Broch (remains of) lie in woodland immediately west of Little Loch Shin in Lairg. Access is from the Countryside Centre, where ample parking is available. If you drive past the football pitch, you can park up close to the gate that gives access to the woodland.

The path into the woods soon splits but as it is circular you can follow either branch and, after a walk of just under a kilometre, at its northernmost point, you will encounter a marker stone carrying generalised information on the brochs of Scotland. The remains of Ferry Wood Broch lie on a shallow rise just a few metres north.

In truth, there is not a lot to see as the structure has been long since trashed by forestry work, but the overall outline is clear, marked by numerons sizeable boulders all around it, though apart from one short, tumbled stretch, few are adjacent to each other. No signs of inner or outer wall facings are apparent, nor any hint of any mural structure.

At the time of my visit there was a low semicircular structure that resembled a wind break, but as all its smallish stones were clean and free of vegetation, it is almost certainly a recently constructed ‘folly’.

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