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Broubster
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Site Name Broubster
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Claban
Canmore ID 7976
Site Number ND06SW 47
NGR ND 028 602
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7976
- Council Highland
- Parish Reay
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06SW 47 028 602.
Claban.
OS 6"map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1877)
A longhouse standing to 1.2m in height, two ruined buildings, are incorporating a kiln. Adjoining are two low enclosures and traces of rig and furrow.
Visited by OS 29 September 1981.
A farmstead comprising three unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet x). One unroofed building, two enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1987).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 3 October 1995.
