Monument record MHG48033 - Hill Of Ulbster

NMRS Report: (19/07/2005)
ND34SW 167 33487 42411 & 33487 42432

The remains of this sheepfold are situated immediately E of the rough track that climbs the E flank of the Hill of Ulbster, some 370m N of Mains of Ulbster farmsteading (ND34SW 304). The S side of the stone-walled fold, which measures about 18m in diameter and has an entrance on the N, has been destroyed. The wall here had evidently largely been removed before June 1947, when the fold was recorded on an RAF vertical aerial photograph (CPE/SCOT/UK/225, print 3157), and any surviving fragments would have been destroyed by the gravel-pit (ND34SW 168) that cuts into the interior on this side. Attached to the N side of the fold, immediately E of the entrance, is a small subrectangular hut or enclosure. It measures 6.5m from E to W by 3m transversely within a wall reduced to low, grass-grown footings. The sheepfold is depicted on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxix; 1907, sheet xxix), but neither map shows the hut.
(YARROWS04 730 & 343)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 25 August 2004