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Field Visit
Date September 1978
Event ID 1134549
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1134549
Fairey Knowe, Buchlyvie NS 585 942 NS59SE
Excavation has shown that this broch measures about 19.2m in diameter over a wall 5.4m thick and occupies the site of an earlier timber round-house. Finds from the broch, and C.14 dating, indicate that it was occupied during the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(DES, 1975, 53; DES, 1976, 62; DES, 1977, 36; DES, 1978, 2)
