Archaeology Notes

Event ID 655182

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND38NW 13.01 HY 34690 89400 Lighthouse Keepers' Cottages

Not to be confused with Ruff of Cantick, Beacon (ND 34786 89773), for which see ND38NW 21.

(Location cited as ND 347 893). Cantick Head Lighthouse, South Walls, completed 1858, engineer Alan Stevenson. A tapering circular-section tower with corbelled walk-way. The keepers' houses have, unusually, ridge roofs.

J R Hume 1977.

See also sale brochure, Knight, Frank and Rutley, June 1991 for text, photograph and other items relating to sale of lightkeepers' houses, filed D 10.1 LIG (S).

Information from RCAHMS 1991, updated 2009.