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Field Visit
Date March 1985
Event ID 1156382
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156382
Camp Castle, Craigie NS 4279 3272 NS43SW 2
What is probably a broch is situated on a rocky knoll 270m W of Meadowhead farmhouse. The broch is roughly circular, measuring 19,5m from N to S by 19.1m over a wall at least 4.8m in thickness; only five inner facing-stones are visible, all of them on the W, but there are stones numerous outer facing-stones, especially around the E and SW.
The facing-stones are large irregular blocks measuring up to 1.1m by 0.8m and 0.5m in height.
RCAHMS 1985, visited (SH) March 1985
(RCAHMS Survey of Marginal Lands; DES, 1961, 25; Feachem 1977, 163).
