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Thrumster
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Thrumster
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 271455
Site Number ND34NW 45
NGR ND 34818 45770
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271455
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34NW 45 ND 34818 45770
This farmstead, which is situated in an area of peaty moorland about 450m NE of Thrumster Transmitting Station, comprises a range containing two compartments. The WNW compartment, which stands to a height of 2.5m at the ESE gable, contains fireplaces in each end, that on the ESE being flanked by a cupboard recess on the N and the only entrance into the structure on the S. There are two windows in the SSW side, and cruck-slots are visible in the interior, three on the SSW side and four on the NNE. The ESE compartment was probably a byre, but it has been reduced to little more than grass-grown footings.
The range is depicted roofed on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxx; 1907, sheet xxx).
(YARROWS04 614)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 10 August 2004.
