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Melbourne Cottage

Cottage (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Melbourne Cottage

Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 270842

Site Number ND34SW 472

NGR ND 33010 44158

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Wick
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND34SW 472 ND 33010 44158

This ruined cottage is situated in a small cultivated field some 400m NE of Melbourne Cottage farmsteading (ND34SW 183). It measures 10.8m from NE to SW by 4.9m transversely overall, but only the external corners are clearly visible, and the interior has been filled with field-cleared stones. The cottage is depicted roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxix; 1907, sheet xxix).

(YARROWS04 633)

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 11 August 2004.

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