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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656811

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656811

NF81NW 1 8175 1811.

(NF 8175 1811) Castle Calvay (O.E.) (In Ruins)

OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Castle Calvay is situated on an islet separated only at high tide from Calvay Island, to which it is linked by a causeway. The fragmentary buildings, built aginst and incorporating the curtains, are of rough rubble in shell lime mortar. Slabs of stone are in some places bedded on edge. The average height of the walls in 1924 was 12ft. The date is indeterminate.

RCAHMS 1928.

The castle is generally as described and planned by RCAHMS but the causeway is no longer evident.

Surveyed at 1:10560.

Visited by OS (J T T) 13 May 1965.

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