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Ulbster School Broch is an Iron Age stone tower located 125 metres south of Ulbster Schoolhouse in Caithness, northern Scotland. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument (reference SM595). Like other brochs of the Atlantic seaboard, it would have been constructed as a defensive or prestige structure during the Iron Age, its distinctive hollow-walled circular form providing both strength and economy of building materials. The broch sits on bedrock of Middle Old Red Sandstone, a conglomerate and sandstone formation of Middle Devonian age. This local geology of mixed grain sizes would have provided the builder with naturally fractured stone suitable for dry-stone construction, a practical advantage for Iron Age builders in this exposed northern landscape.
Ulbster School, broch 125m S of Schoolhouse is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM595. View the official record →
Ulbster School Broch is an Iron Age stone tower located 125 metres south of Ulbster Schoolhouse in Caithness, northern Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM595.
Ulbster School, broch 125m S of Schoolhouse dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a broch 125m s of schoolhouse. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ulbster School, broch 125m S of Schoolhouse 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 SM595.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Watenan,fort 100m SSW of,Ulbster (0.8 km), Watenan,cairn & stone setting 400m W of,Ulbster (1.1 km), Cairn of Get, chambered cairn, cairns and cists (1.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Ulbster School, broch 125m S of Schoolhouse'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.
Ulbster School, broch 125m S of Schoolhouse stands on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.