EHG4886 - Geophysical Survey - Easter and Wester Rarichie

Easter and Wester Rarichie are located on two rocky knolls approximately 180m apart at the base of the north-eastern slopes of the Hill of Nigg on the east coast of the Tarbat Peninsula. The hill of Easter Rarichie is a multivallate hill fort crowned by a dry-stone roundhouse at its summit. Wester Rarichie hill has a turf walled roundhouse and a series of slight gullies and banks located on its summit plateau. Both are prominent hills in the landscae and command clear views across the Tarbat peninsula and the Dornoch and Moray firths. Geophysical and measured surveys were undertaken on the sites in January 2013 by a team from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. Digital measured survey plans of both hills were created and magnetometer and resistivity surveys undertaken on Easter Rarichie hill and the fields between the hills. <1>