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Whiteleen
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whiteleen
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 270915
Site Number ND34SW 233
NGR ND 31910 42958
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270915
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 233 31910 42958
This disused quarry, which is situated on an E-facing slope in heather moorland 270m W of the ruins of Whiteleen farmstead (ND34SW 126), comprises several small worked outcrops within an area measuring about 45m from N to S by 30m transversely.
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 300)
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW), 1 July 2004.
