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Thrumster, Sarclet
Structure (20th Century)
Site Name Thrumster, Sarclet
Classification Structure (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Q/k; Rose Cottage; Mains Of Ulbster, Hillhead, Borrowston
Canmore ID 271631
Site Number ND34SW 311.06
NGR ND 33466 43890
NGR Description ND 33466 43890
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271631
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 311.06 33466 43890
This concrete structure, which is one of four on the decoy airfield (ND34SW 311.03-06), stands in the NW corner of a field within a peat moss, some 530m ENE of Borrowston farmsteading and well within the NE corner of the airfield complex. Defined by concrete walls 0.28m in thickness by 1.1m in height, it is H-shaped on plan, but the sides are of unequal length and return inwards at their ends. In this case the sides measure 7.3m and 5m in length respectively, and the cross-wall is 2.4m in length; the returns are 1.2m in length. One of the structures has a steel loop set in the concrete floor on either side of the cross-wall, but here the interior was obscured by standing water. The structures are probably tethers, possibly for dummy aircraft.
(YARROWS04 684)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 12 August 2004
