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Loch na Berie Broch and Causeway is an Iron Age broch located in Ross-shire, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The structure rises from bedrock of Palaeoproterozoic age, formed from an unnamed igneous intrusion of felsic composition that has weathered to create the foundation upon which this Iron Age settlement was built. This ancient geological base provided a stable platform for the defensive fortification, which dates to the latter centuries before the Roman period.
The broch itself represents one of Scotland's most distinctive Iron Age building types, a hollow-walled circular tower that served both defensive and domestic purposes for the communities that constructed and occupied it. The associated causeway, surviving alongside the main structure, would have provided essential access to the broch across potentially difficult terrain, evidence of the practical engineering solutions employed by Iron Age populations in northern Britain.
The monument's survival in Ross-shire testifies to the widespread distribution of broch construction across Highland Scotland during the Iron Age. The site remains valuable evidence for understanding settlement patterns, architectural practices and everyday life in the pre-Roman north, preserved within the dramatic landscape of the northern Highlands where such monuments are particularly concentrated.
Loch na Berie,broch and causeway is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5798. View the official record →
Loch na Berie Broch and Causeway is an Iron Age broch located in Ross-shire, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5798.
Loch na Berie,broch and causeway dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a broch and causeway. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Loch na Berie,broch and causeway 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 SM5798.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Loch Baravat,horizontal water-mills N of (0.5 km), Berie,Lewis,settlement site,700m NW of (0.5 km), St Peter's Church, Pabay Mor, Lewis (2.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Loch na Berie,broch and causeway'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.
Loch na Berie,broch and causeway stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Palaeoproterozoic, bedrock that formed in the Paleoproterozoic. The rock here is felsic-rock.