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Dun Fiadhairt is a broch located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, dating to the Iron Age. The monument represents one of the distinctive circular stone tower structures characteristic of northern Scotland during the first centuries BC and AD. Like other brochs of its period, it would have functioned as a defensive or high-status residential structure, though its precise original function remains a subject of archaeological discussion. The site is recorded in the Historic Environment Scotland INSPIRE database under designation SM905.
Dun Fiadhairt,broch is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM905. View the official record →
Dun Fiadhairt is a broch located in Inverness-shire, Scotland, dating to the Iron Age. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM905.
Dun Fiadhairt,broch dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a broch. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Dun Fiadhairt,broch is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM905.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including St Mary's Church and Burial Ground, Dunvegan (3.5 km), Dun Osdale,broch 850m N of Osdale (4.1 km), Annait,monastic settlement on W bank of Bay River (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Dun Fiadhairt,broch's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Dun Fiadhairt,broch stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.