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Bowermadden

Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kiln (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Bowermadden

Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kiln (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 279491

Site Number ND26SW 62

NGR ND 23398 64539

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Bower
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

ND26SW 62 23398 64539.

This ruinous farmstead comprises two parallel ranges, the longer lying on the NW being the better preserved and still standing 1.9m in height at the wallhead over roughly coursed flagstone walls. This range is divided into three compartments, that on the NE being a round-ended kiln barn with opposing doors. The second range may have been a cottage. The farmstead is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, and by 1907 a horse-engine had been added to the NW side of the barn (Caithness 1877 and 1907, sheet xii). The site was visited in 1993 and 2000.

Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 19 July 2006

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