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Torr Phadruig
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Torr Phadruig
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dorrery Lodge; Tor Phadruig
Canmore ID 7630
Site Number ND05NE 16
NGR ND 0671 5603
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7630
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND05NE 16 0671 5603.
(ND 0671 5603) Torr Phadruig (NR)
(Undated) OS annotation.
Hut Circle, 'Torr Phadruig': About 3/4 mile NNW of Dorrery Lodge and immediately E of the march fence is a stone- built circular construction, 45ft in over all diameter. The entrance seems to have been in the S, directly through a wall about 9ft in thickness, thereafter by a passage 2ft in width passing round to the E. The central part of the construction, with a diameter of some 13ft, appears to be built. In it and in the outer wall there have been small round chambers faced with large slabs. The whole construction is in a very dilapidated state and the details of its plan very obscure.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
A large flat-topped mound of stones partially covered with turf and heather. It measures 16m diameter and is 1.4m high. It is in a very dilapidated state, but what appears to be a collapsed passage leads into the mound from the NW and continues southwards round to a possible chamber in the E of the mound. The details of this structure are obscure but it would appear to be the remains of a cairn, possibly chambered.
Visited by OS (W D J) 10 April 1962.
(ND 0671 5603) Tor Phadruig (NAT) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, (1963)
Torr Phadruig applies to a heather and turf-covered cairn, 13.0m in diameter by 1.0m high. It has been extensively disturbed by exploratory trenches, revealing a core content of medium sized slabs; there is no evidence of a chamber or passage.
Visited by OS (N K B) 15 September 1981.
