Glamor

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A farmstead comprising one roofed building and one unroofed long building, which has two compartments, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet xxx). A large structure of four compartments is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 3 April 1996.

The remains of a building, most probably originally part of a farmstead, have been incorporated into a cluster of rectangular sheep-pens and a sheep-dip on the open moorland about 400m WNW of the abandoned farmstead of Warehouse (ND34SW 100). Elements of the building that are visible within the fabric of the pens include an L-shaped length of wall measuring 0.7m in thickness and up to 1.4m in height, which represents either the original NW corner of the building or the NW corner of one of its compartments. The W arm of this wall measures 2m in length and contains two blocked ambries, while the N arm, which measures 2.7m in length and is now surmounted by coping stones set on edge, contains a blocked doorway at its W end and an ambry.

The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxix) depicts what is either a pair of rectangular pens, joined end-to-end on a N and S alignment, or else the building, unroofed and containing at least two compartments; a smaller roofed building lay immediately to the SE. By contrast, the 2nd edition of the map (Caithness 1907, sheet xxix) shows only the two pens.

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Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, PM) 11 May 2004.