Field Visit
Date 17 September 1943
Event ID 968104
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Fort, Craig Mony. The site of this construction is the NE lip of the high ridge that separates Glen Urquhart from Glen Coiltie. The ridge ends at about the 450ft contour in a promontory, sheer on the E and NE and sloping very steeply to the N, that rises 6ft or more above the saddle that connects it with the main mass of Cnoc a’ Bhuachaille. Firs have been planted on the summit and paths constructed to make it a lookout point; presumably by the proprietors of Balmacaan House. These operations have mutilated the monument; in particular it looks as if facing blocks from the rampart have been used as kerbs for the garden paths and one of these now blocks a cleft on the N that may have afforded access to the fort. All that remains of the defences is the debris of a stone rampart about 98ft long across the neck of the promontory, running most of the way along the crest of an outcrop ridge. It looks as if the rampart may have turned E at both ends and continued along the edge of the declivity on the N and of the precipice on the S, but the modern paths traverse the most probable course for such work. They make it impossible to say whether there was an entrance from the saddle. The rampart is now represented by a rickle of stones, but a few footings are visible on the SW.
Visited by RCAHMS (VG Childe), 17 September 1943.
OS 6”map sheet xxix.
