Monument record MHG48323 - Thrumster, Sarclet
Summary
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Location
Grid reference | Centred ND 33441 44087 (20m by 20m) |
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Map sheet | ND34SW |
Civil Parish | WICK |
Geographical Area | CAITHNESS |
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Full Description
NMRS Report: (24/04/2006)
ND31SW 311.05 33441 44088
This concrete structure, which is one of four on the decoy airfield (ND34SW 311.03-06), stands at the edge of a field within a peat moss, some 570m NE of Borrowston farmsteading and at the NE corner of the airfield complex. Defined by concrete walls 0.28m in thickness by 1.4m 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 7.6m and 5.05m in length respectively, and the cross-wall is 2.25m in length; the returns are 1.35m in length. A small steel hoop, which is set into the centre of the concrete floor of each compartment, suggests that the structure was probably a tether, possibly for dummy aircraft.
(YARROWS04 683)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 12 August 2004
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SHG24123 Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 271630.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2009 3:19PM