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Brickigoe
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Brickigoe
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 271852
Site Number ND34SW 487
NGR ND 30025 44986
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271852
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 487 ND 30025 44986
This disused quarry is situated in uncultivated ground 250m NW of Brickigoe farmsteading (ND34SW 312). it comprises a waterlogged depression measuring about 15m in diameter by 1m in depth and has an entrance on the E. The quarry is first depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxix), but it went out of use soon after and is annotated 'Old Quarry' on the 2nd edition of the map (1907, sheet xxix).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 17 June 2004.
