Field Visit

Date 1997

Event ID 583362

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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‘Just to the northeast of the north house on St Ninian’s Point can be seen the broken down remains of a quite substantial breakwater (NS 035615). A map date 1781 in the Marquess of Bute’s Archives indicates in relation to that breakwater ‘boats lye here’. This breakwater of sixty to sixty-five yards in length was known as Stein’s Port and besides being used for shelter was used for careening boats.’

I Maclagan 1997