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Sarclet, Volunteer Rifle Range
Firing Range (19th Century)
Site Name Sarclet, Volunteer Rifle Range
Classification Firing Range (19th Century)
Canmore ID 91712
Site Number ND34SE 4
NGR ND 3535 4371
NGR Description ND 3535 4371 and ND 3535 4368
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/91712
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SE 4 3535 4371 and 3535 4368
A 'Volunteer' rifle range, butt and target depicted on the 1st edition of the 6-inch map (Caithness 1881, sheet xxx) to the N of a gun battery (ND34SE 6).
Information from RCAHMS (DE), 14 February 1996.
All that is now visible of this rifle range, which is first depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxx), are the remains of the target butt. This comprises a thick, stone wall about 12m in length from NNE to SSW and 2m in thickness, which has been built at the foot of a cliff-top outcrop. The front and rear faces of the wall contain upright boulders up to 0.75m in height.
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (Caithness, No. 13, p. 295) notes that the range, which was 300 yards long, was used by the 6th Caithness Volunteer Artillery and that it lay on the estate of Captain Bentley Innes, Thrumster.
(YARROWSO4 535)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 29 July 2004.
