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Aerial view of Nigg Construction Works, Cromarty Firth, looking SE.

SC 1896611

Description Aerial view of Nigg Construction Works, Cromarty Firth, looking SE.

Date 1998

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

Catalogue Number SC 1896611

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content This extensive view shows the junction of the Cromarty Firth, at the Nigg, with the Moray Firth. The Nigg construction works are on the promontory in the centre, the southern tip of Tarbat Ness. The pier is just visible at the fabrication yard. The oil storage tanks are visible to the right at Nigg Oil terminal. Cromarty is across the water. In the summer a ferry crosses between Nigg and Cromarty. At bottom R, in the small clump of trees, is Nigg House, a Laird's House, with nearby Nigg old Church and Churchyard. The church houses a fine Class II Pictish stone. The Balnagowan River is bottom centre. There is a large fish trap in the firth to the R of the River. Title and Scope & Content contributed by North of Scotland Archaeological Society (2021).

Accession Number 2019/15

External Reference P10924

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1896611

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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