Couper Hill
Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Couper Hill
Classification Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 118869
Site Number ND27SW 69
NGR ND 2312 7097
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Dunnet
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND27SW 69 2312 7097
A sheepfold is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Caithness, 1876, sheet vi), approximately 130m SW of the summit of Couper Hill. The OS have given the sheepfold a location which is not quite compatible to that plotted from the 1st edition (ibid), which would lie at ND 2314 7099. The sheepfold is shown on the 1st edition as having additional walls to the NW and a single extension wall to the S. This structure is no longer depicted on the latest edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (DE) June 1997
