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[Page] 118. HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF THURSO.

the third and fourth respectively the initials I. and S. On either
side of the shield is a lion passant; while a thistle and a rose com-

[Drawing inserted]
FIG. 28. - Carved Mantelpiece in Old House, Davidson's Entry, Thurso (No. 427).

plete the ornamentation at the respective ends of the panel. The
carving is bold and spirited.
O.S.M., CAITH., v. Visited, 21st September 1910.

428. Old House, Thurso. - To the N.W. of St Peter's Church is an
ancient building used as a granary. It has been entirely renewed
inside. On a corbel at the SW. angle are the initials WS.KP., and on
one of the upper quoins at the opposite side of the gable the date
June 1627.
O.S.M., CAITH., v. Visited, 21st September 1910.

DEFENSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS.

429. Broch, Scrabster. - In a grass park on the N. side of the road
from Thurso to Reay and about 3/4 m. W. of Scrabster House, is a
grassy mound containing a broch. The mound is encircled by a
ditch 32' in width and 8' to 9' in depth, with a bank, formed of the
upcast, crowning the counterscarp. From the top of the scarp rises
a parapet wall or rampart, now some 3' in height. The ruin, situated
some 20' back from the parapet above the ditch, is entirely overgrown
with grass, and measures some 73' in diameter and 4' to 5' in eleva-
tion. The depression which marks the extent of the interior measures
32' in diameter.
O.S.M., CAITH., v. Visited, 8th August 1910.

430. Broch, Geise. - At the edge of a field beside the Burn of
Geise, about 1/4 m. W. by S. of Geise, is a mound overgrown with
grass. It appears to have been a broch, but it has been quarried into
at some time and the greater part of the structure has been removed,