Camster
Platform (Period Unassigned), Quarry Scoop (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Camster
Classification Platform (Period Unassigned), Quarry Scoop (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 8716
Site Number ND24SE 7
NGR ND 2628 4257
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8716
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND24SE 7 2628 4257.
A hut-circle with a slightly excavated interior, 12' in diameter, within its peat bank, lies on top of a high bank above the road north of the Easan Burn (ND 262 425). The hut is overgrown with heather and the position of the entrance is not evident.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
ND 2628 4257 - This feature comprises a near-circular hollow, 4.0m in diameter, and 0.3m deep, with traces of what may be a peat-covered bank around its rim, best defined in the E where it is 2.5m wide. There is no trace of stonework. This may be a small denuded hut but it could equally well be a quarry hole with the excavated material on its rim. About 15.0m to the NW are traces of a circular platform about 4.0m in diameter, but its purpose is obscure.
Visited by OS (I S S) 11 April 1972.
