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Lower Camster
Bridge (19th Century), Culvert (20th Century), Sand And Gravel Workings (Period Unknown)
Site Name Lower Camster
Classification Bridge (19th Century), Culvert (20th Century), Sand And Gravel Workings (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 270682
Site Number ND24NE 29
NGR ND 26002 45793
NGR Description ND 25989 45795 and ND 26001 45783
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270682
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND24NE 29 25989 45795 and 26002 45793
This culvert is situated immediately E of the Lybster to Watten public road opposite the end of the track to Lower Camster. The culvert, which replaced an earlier bridge, comprises a concrete pipe, measuring about 5m in length from NW to SE, which channels a drain below an overgrown track. Both ends of the pipe have been set into a concrete façade. The track formerly provided access to the open moorland, but this has been blocked by a gravel-pit dug immediately E of the drain. The partly water-filled pit measures 19m from NW to SE by 18m transversely and up to 1.2m in depth. It is depicted on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxix; 1907, sheet xxix).
(YARROWS04 908 and 909)
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW), 28 September 2004.
Field Visit (June 2010 - July 2010)
ND 26001 45783: The HER notes that a modern concrete culvert, which replaced an earlier bridge, is located to the east of the Lybster to Watten public road with the culvert forming a bridge to a now disused trackway. Field survey located the site and found no changes to the above description.
Information from Stuart Mitchell (CFA Archaeology Ltd) July 2010. OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-79560 (No.60).
