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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 610114
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/610114
A small harbour existed here from at least as early as the 16th century, since when in its early history it seems to have been so often ruinous and under repair that it is difficult to date the earliest features with any certainty. The earliest or eastern curved pier or breakwater enclosng the harbour on the seaward side is about 375 ft long. The straight west pier about 130 ft long was built from 1826 to 1828 to the design of Robert Stevenson. The estimate of contractor John Gosman of £1095 was accepted for building the pier and deepening the harbour. Since then, apart from some small extensions, repairs and improvements, the harbour is little changed.
Unusual engineering features are areas of vertically set dry-stone masonry offering greater resistance to wave
pressure probably dating from the 18th or early-19th centuries and, the use in the seaward face of the curved
pier of stone blocks, partly dry built and secured with wooden wedges to reduce wave force effects.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
