Oblique aerial view of Covesea Skerries Lighthouse and Silver Sands Caravan Park, near Lossiemouth, Moray, looking SW.

Description Oblique aerial view of Covesea Skerries Lighthouse and Silver Sands Caravan Park, near Lossiemouth, Moray, looking SW.

Date 1999

Collection Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1867653

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content The Caravan Park is dominated by Covesea Skerries Lighthouse, built to a design by Alan Stevenson in 1846, due to shipping losses in the Moray Firth. The hazardous Covesea Skerries and Halliman Skerries lie offshore (not seen in image). The light was automated in 1984 and discontinued in 2012. At the foot of the tower are the white-painted keepers' cottages. To the left of these, near the caravans, is the single-storey, grey stone farm steading associated with the Lighthouse. On a grassy platform on the clifftop nearby can just be discerned a WW2 pillbox, camouflaged in local stone; while anti-tank blocks lines the sandy shoreline. At left of image is part of RAF Lossiemouth, an airfield dating from World War 2. The low-lying farmland of the Laich of Moray stretches into the distance, with the wooded policies of Gordonstoun at upper centre. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P11282

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap