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Melbourne Cottage
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Melbourne Cottage
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 271334
Site Number ND34SW 426
NGR ND 32974 44202
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271334
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 426 ND 32974 44202
This rectangular enclosure, which is situated on a low rise about 380m NE of Melbourne Cottage farmsteading (ND34SW 183), is largely overgrown with gorse, but it measures 18.7m from NE to SW by 9.3m transversely within a tumbled drystone wall. The enclosure is depicted on both the both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxix; 1907, sheet xxix).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 11 August 2004.
