Achness

  • Broch
  • Destroyed
  • NC46780273
Nearest town:
Ullapool (35km WSW)
OS reference:
NC46780273
OS sheet:
16
Latitude:
57° 59' 15.23 N
Longitude:
4° 35' 30.81 W
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Image of Achness (Broch) by LesHamilton

The Casselly Falls, the only real reason to visit Achness broch.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 21, 2022
Image of Achness (Broch) by LesHamilton

From most directions, Achness Broch appears as nothing more than a low grassy mound.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 21, 2022
Image of Achness (Broch) by LesHamilton

This view shows just a hint of circular form with a slightly depressed centre.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 21, 2022
Image of Achness (Broch) by LesHamilton

This view of Achness Broch indicates just how few stones remain.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 21, 2022

Articles

Achness

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jun 21, 2022

Visited: June 13, 2022

As a spectacle, the remains of Achness Broch are barely worth the visit, and it was only because they sit just over one hundred metres from the magnificent Casselly Falls (Achness Falls on the OS map) that I was in this area. You pass the broch on the path to the falls.

Nowadays, Achness Broch is just a low, grass-covered mound, with less than a handful of stones peeking through the undergrowth. A mere 65 metres from the broch stands the walled Achness Graveyard, and it seems probable, in the absence of any other stone structures in the vicinity, that the stones of the broch were plundered in its construction.

From some viewpoints it is just possible to discern a rather shallow saucer-shaped depression in the surface of the mound, as reported by Canmore, typical evidence of the central court of many brochs.

Just 90 metres to the southeast of this broch stand the remains of another ruined monument: Achaneas Broch.

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