Freswick ( ) or Skirsa, is a small remote hamlet, overlooking Freswick Bay to the east, in eastern Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scotland, Scottish council area of Highland Council area, Highland. The village of Skirza lies directly northeast of Freswick.

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The name Freswick probably originates from the Old Norwegian ''Frøysvík'' meaning 'List of names of Freyr, Freyr's bay'. Current Fresvik is a village in Norway. It is also suggested that Freswick stemms from 'Frisians' wick', similar to the toponyms ''Vreeswijk'' and ''Friezenwijk'' in the Netherlands. There is a connection with former Frisians, Frisia and Freswick concerning early-medieval brooches that have been found. A fragments of Viking-Age fibula, so-called penannular brooch type, found at Freswick by Bremner in 1939 has similarities to a fibula fragment found at the hamlet of Hallumerhoek, province Friesland in the Netherlands.

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Populated places in Caithness Orkneyinga saga places {{Highland-geo-stub

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