Carn Liath (broch)

The Iron Age broch (tower) Carn Liath (gray hill ) in Sutherland (Scotland ) lies on the sea-facing slope next to the road from the Dornoch Firth on Golspie and Brora to Wick.

The Broch has a separate outer wall. A corridor leads from the entrance in the wall to the Broch entrance. There is evidence of a door in the access of the Broch, and there was probably a gate in the outer wall. Access to the Broch has a thick fall. An opening in the access leads to a staircase that ran within the bivalve Broch wall. The once almost completely worn walls have been restored to a height of 3.5 m.

More buildings were crammed into the narrow space between the Broch and the outer wall. Some were contemporary, others come from a time in which the Broch had been abandoned. Those that lay west of the Ganges, are particularly well researched. Artifacts, including a copy of a Roman silver fibula from the 4th or 5th century, show that the site was to be used in this time.