Wagmore
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Wagmore
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 7522
Site Number ND02NW 8
NGR ND 002 267
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7522
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND02NW 8 002 267.
ND 003 268. A turf-walled enclosure on the S bank of the Morven Burn containing on the flood plain to NE a sub-rectangular, turf-covered mound about 9m square with some stone exposed. On higher ground to the W is a rectangular building with a SE annexe measuring 5m N-S by 9m E-W overall. To the W of this is another rectangular building, 4m N-S by 2m E-W, set in a circular hollow 8m in diameter. Further W close to the turf dyke are traces of another rectangular building 3m E-W by 4.5m N-S. I W Stuart 1973; OS 6" map, annotated by I W Stuart.
At ND 002 267, on a dry rise on the S side of Morven Burn, is a shieling site comprising at least five oval or sub-rectangular huts built of turf, all within an associated enclosure bank around the rise.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 26 October 1982.
An enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xli), and is also shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 16 October 1995.
