Field Visit
Date February 1978
Event ID 1131243
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1131243
Craig Phadrig NH 640 452 NH64NW 6
Situated in a commanding position overlooking the narrow mouth of the Beauly Firth, this fort consists of two heavily vitrified walls, up to 23m apart, the inner of which (1 .4m high and spread to a thickness of 9.2m) encloses an area measuring 75m by 23m; on the E there are the remains of what may have been an outer hornwork. Excavations in 1971 -2 showed that the walls were built probably during the fourth century BC and yielded evidence of occupation at some time during the Dark Ages.
RCAHMS 1979, visited February 1978
(Small and Cottam 1972; DES (1972), 23)
