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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642793
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642793
HU43NE 8.00 48923 37593
HU43NE 8.00 HU 48921 37612 Keeper's Cottages
HU43NE 8.00 HU 48916 37640 Engine House
HU43NE 8.00 HU 48900 37658 Store
HU43NE 8.00 HU 48890 37661 Store
HU43NE 8.00 HU 48907 37600 Foghorn
(Location cited as HU 489 377). Bressay Lighthouse, built 1858 by engineers D and T Stevenson. A short circular-section tower with two blocks of keepers' houses.
J R Hume 1977.
Planned and built under the Act of 1853, this lighthouse was intended to guard the southern entrance into Lerwick Harbour. It was lit in 1858, and was listed for automation in 1979.
R W Munro 1979.
