Dun Fiadhairt Broch

Dun Fiadhairt is an Iron Age broch located on the north coast of the island of Skye [1]. The broch stands on a low, rocky knoll, in the midst of moorland, on a peninsula which juts into the east side of Loch Dunvegan [1]. The broch has an external diameter of 16.8 metres and an internal diameter of 9.6 metres [1]. Dun Fiadhairt was excavated around 1892 by the Countess Vincent Baillet de Latour [1]. Finds included a quantity of pottery, and a large amount of "iron refuse" [1]. Stone finds included a rotary quern, a whetstone, a hammerstone, spindle whorls and a fragment of an armlet [1]. Several glass beads were found of various colours, and in addition there were 59 amber beads in the form of short cylinders which presumably formed a necklace [1]. There was also found a baked clay object, thought to be a Roman votive model of a bale of wool [1].