Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659481

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ96NE 31 centred 9670 6740

Harbour (disused) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.

For Sandhaven, Main Street, Forbes' Boatyard (NJ 964 674), see NJ96NE 28.

(Location cited as NJ 967 673). Sandhaven Harbour, built 1840 and subsequently extended (c. 1873), engineers James F Beattie & Son, Aberdeen. A large basin formed a long L-plan pier and a short straight pier, with a subdividing straight pier. Most of the works are in concrete, and are badly decayed. There is a boatbuilding yard (NJ96NE 28) at the W end of the harbour.

J R Hume 1977.

Air photographs: AAS/97/12/G25/23-4 and AAS/97/12/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/29.

Oblique aerial photographs taken during World War II (RAF S319.H53.1416, frame nos.53-5, flown 11 July 1941), show that both breakwaters had their landward ends obstructed by brick and concrete walls standing to about 4m in height.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 1941.