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Gansclet
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gansclet
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 270875
Site Number ND34SW 204
NGR ND 33403 44402
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270875
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 204 33403 44402
What is probably a grass-grown quarry is situated in a field of pasture 200m W of Gansclet farmsteading and immediately S of a building stance (ND34SW 206). Roughly oval on plan, it measures 6.2m from NE to SW by 3.8m transversely and 0.5m in depth. The quarry is not depicted on either the 1st or 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxix; 1907, sheet xxix).
(YARROWS04 670)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 12 August 2004.
