Skullomie, Harbour View from SW showing SSE front of jetty
SC 498603
Description Skullomie, Harbour View from SW showing SSE front of jetty
Date 29/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 498603
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Scullomie Harbour, Sutherland, Highland This remarkable harbour is formed by a long angled rubble quay on the inner side of a rocky peninsula. The neck of land joining the quay to the mainland has a ramped slipway on the side facing the harbour, possibly intended as a stilling beach. This view shows the shore end of the quay. Note its very massive construction. and the large level area behind the quay wall, ideally suited to the curing of herring on a large scale. This harbour appears to have been designed as a base for herring curing, and was probably built as part of the Sutherland Estate's programme of estate improvement. It was apparently little used because of its difficult approach from the sea. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/149/3
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