Carn Liath - Broch

Càrn Liath is an Iron Age broch on the eastern shore of the Scottish Highlands, near Golspie, Sutherland [1]. The broch has an external diameter of around 19 metres and an internal diameter of around 10 metres [1]. The broch was first excavated in the 19th century by the Duke of Sutherland, and was initially thought to be a burial cairn [1]. Finds included pottery, flint chips, stone hammers, mortars and pestles, querns, whorls, shale rings, long-handled bone combs, a whale bone club, a silver fibula, steatite cups and an iron blade [1]. The site was excavated again in 1986 [1]. This showed that the site was occupied in the Bronze Age, before the broch was built [1]. A Bronze Age cist burial with a food vessel was discovered [1].