Monument record MHG48324 - Thrumster, Sarclet
Summary
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Location
Grid reference | Centred ND 33466 43889 (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)
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
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SHG24123 Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 271631.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2009 3:19PM