Archaeology Notes
Date - 1977
Event ID 696266
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/696266
NR77NE 7 7856 7807.
(NR 7855 7806) Caisteal Torr (NR) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
Caisteal Torr occupies a small stop near the summit of a long steep ridge. A good deal of walling including a small citadel, but robbed for dykes and confused.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
The summit of Caisteal Torr is occupied by the remains of a circular dun measuring up to 13.0m in diameter. The severly ruined walls utilise natural rock to the N and S but are best preserved in the W where a wall survives up to 2.4m in width and is five courses high. Although no entrance is apparent, it was probably in the E, where the dun is most approachable. The sloping interior is featureless.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (IA) 20 June 1973.
NR 7856 7807. No change to the report of 20 June 1973.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 27 January 1977.
