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Accurately described in Canmore as:
"a featureless low mound of boulders, grass-covered except round the waters edge."
If you're going to the lighthouse at the end of Point, you'll drive right past this and can't miss it.
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One of the many sites around Steinacleit. You can't help but notice this, sitting on the loch.
Besides the obvious causeway, other remains include several traces of walls, and possible evidence of the existance of earlier crannogs in the loch.
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If you're heading to Dun Carloway from Callanish, look for this dun in the loch just before the Dun Carloway broch turn off. It's right next to the road, and has a clear causeway linking it to the shore. That's about the only structure that remains, as the rest is a tumble of stones and heather.
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A recreated "jelly baby" Pictish house sits behind the dunes here. Not ancient, but I've included a photograph of it. It's well worth visiting.
The actual original settlement has been partially excavated, but some of it hasn't been touched. It's all reburied in the sand, and it isn't very easy to make out. The beach here is outstanding, and the views are amazing.
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Not much remains of this broch. If you like brochs, it's worth a brief glance if you're seeing the Bernera bridge standing stones anyway.
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Excellent views of the church at Rodel from this Dun, which is at the top of the small hill immediately to it's north.
Very little remains of it, although there are traces of the walls (including hints of mural cells) and an external wall creating an enclosure around the Dun and the summit of the hill it sits on.
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This vitrified fort is between Strathpeffer and Dingwall.
It's one of the four hillforts with direct line of sight to Craig Phadraig hillfort above Inverness. It also has direct line of sight to Ord Hill hillfort, North Kessock.
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This cist is inches from the path to the Cairn o' Get, about 20 yards short of it.
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There is now a dedicated car park 50 yards along the road from the gate. On the way to this site, there is a large broch on the top of a hill off to the right, some hut circles, lime kilns and the path passes inches from a cist. There are also two arrangements of stone rows, almost like "Hills O' Few Stanes".
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This "cairn" is, in fact, the Carn Barn broch.
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Across the river from the A897, but can be accessed on foot from the road through Glen Loth. Nothing much remains, except a 6 feet high pile of stones.
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Pretty much across the road from one of the easiest approaches to Kilphedir broch. Not much more than a pile of rubble, as it has long since been robbed out, but it's likely to be a chambered cairn - possibly one with the Caithness "horns".
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Easily seen from the A897, south of Kinbrace, as one of the images I posted shows. Very good defensive ditches, especially to the south where they are still around 8 feet deep. Sadly, the interior is full of the tumbled stones of the walls.
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Located on the east of the A897, just south of Trantlemore. Easily visible from the road, at the top of a small hill.
A short, but quite steep, walk across boggy heather.
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