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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647575
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647575
HY74SE 20.00 78676 43497
L Ho [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1974.
HY74SE 20.01 HY 7866 4349 Keeper's House
HY74SE 20.02 HY 7863 4347 Farmsteading
(Location cited as HY 787 435). Start Point Lighthouse, built 1870 by engineers D and T Stevenson. Replacing a stone tower built in 1802, a tapering circular-section brick tower, with two-storey, flat-roofed keepers' houses. Now unmanned.
J R Hume 1977.
The Start Point light was first lit in 1806, being the first 'revolving' light in Scotland and replacing the old lighthouse (HY75NE 23) on North Ronaldsay. It was built by engineers T Smith and R Stevenson.
The present lighthouse is distinguished by its unusual decoration of vertical black and white banding; it was automated in 1962.
R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986.
The present lighthouse apparently occupies the same site as its predecessor.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 October 2000.
This lighthouse stands above Tobacco Rock on the tidal island of Start Point at the E extremity of Sanday. It was built by Thomas Stevenson and Robert Stevenson in 1806, in succession to an unlit masonry tower dating from 1802. The first revolving light in the Scottish system was installed in a tower 75.5ft [23m] high; the nominal range of the light is 19nm. The tower is, unusually, painted with black and white vertical stripes.
This was one of the first lighthouses to be automated, in 1962.
S Krauskopf 2003.
