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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 610121
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/610121
In 1843–44 a small low-level lighthouse was built to inform the mariner that when one light was above the
other his ship was in line with the treacherous Carr Rocks about eight miles north. This arrangement did not prove sufficiently effective and led to the stationing of lightships off the Rock from 1877. The original coal-fired light was replaced in 1816 by the present architecturally imposing lighthouse reminiscent of a small castle.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
