Warehouse S

Nearest town:
Wick (11km NE)
OS reference:
ND305420
OS sheets:
11, 12
Latitude:
58° 21' 39.98 N
Longitude:
3° 11' 16.53 W
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Image of Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) by markj99

Central Chamber of Warehouse S Cairn viewed from W.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Sep 15, 2021
Image of Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) by GLADMAN

Toward Loch of Yarrows under a typically forbidding Caithness sky. Note the lochside broch (approx centre), long cairn crowning the crag to its left.... and another of the Warehouse chambered cairns foreground (ish). There is a lot going on here.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN May 3, 2016
Image of Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) by GLADMAN

Apologies for the grinning loon providing some scale here... but current talk of Caithness’s treasures coincided with stumbling across this image of a few years back. Substantial chambered cairn indeed....

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Oct 3, 2011
Image of Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) by greywether

S cairn to left of picture in the distance. Warehouse E (L) and N (R) in the centre. Large bronze age cairn to the right.

greywether
greywether Dec 3, 2003

Articles

Warehouse S

GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 6, 2009

I’m normally wary about ‘official’ trails and walks – best left to the tourists, eh? – but this Loch of Yarrows walk is a gem... as long as you make sure you’ve got yer boots and waterproofs (this is Scotland, after all).

White posts guide the way – so no need for compass – past numerous chambered cairns etc and I reckon this is arguably the pick of the bunch. All the more infuriating, therefore to find old beer cans within the passage on my visit prompting me to crawl down and retrieve the damn things. What kind of muppet takes the trouble to come to this sort of place and then does this? Beggars belief. Suffice to say they’re there no longer and the roof didn’t fall in on my head either – it’s probably the tightest fit I’ve encountered – apart from The Lion Sleeps Tonight (sorry, that’s pretty bad).

Oh.... The views are pretty good, too. Great mini hillwalk, great cairns – what more could could you ask for? Are we talking a Scottish Carrowkeel here? Not quite, but it’s pretty close.

And no, I didn’t take a picture of the farmer.

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