Aerial photograph showing old and new castles and nissen huts

Description Aerial photograph showing old and new castles and nissen huts

Date 1991

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number SC 1693685

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 49649

Scope and Content The castles at Keiss, Caithness, Highland Old Keiss Castle is located on the cliffs (top). Originally standing four storeys in height, it is said to have been already ruinous in 1700. Inland of the old castle is the new Keiss Castle with its distinctive white-harling. Built in 1755, this later castle was originally a simple three storey house that was altered and extended in the Scottish Baronial style in 1860. The two castles at Keiss, in north-east Caithness, are situated on cliffs just to the north of the village. The first was built by George Sinclair, the 5th Earl of Caithness, in the late 16th-early 17th century. The second is of later, 18th century, date. A number of ruined nissen huts and their foundations line the field boundary in the foreground. These are relics of World War II and may well have been associated with a series of pill boxes located along the shoreline near Keiss. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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