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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 663658
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/663658
NH76NE 38.00 78670 67735
Lighthouse
(flashing white) [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, May 2010.
NH76NE 38.01 NH 7867 6774 sundial
For (associated) Lighthouse Keeper's Cottage (now Aberdeen University Lighthouse Field Studies Centre) at NH 78657 67743, see NH76NE 242.
(Location cited as NH 787 678). Cromarty Lighthouse: built 1846 by engineer Alan Stevenson. A typical lighthouse of this area, with a short circular tower upon a semi-circular single-storey base. The square paned lantern has a domed top. The Egyptian single-storey keeper's houses are singularly unspoiled.
J R Hume 1977.
The light was first lit in 1846, and converted to major automatic status in 1984. The white tower is 13m high.
K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986.
Lighthouse.
19th - 20th century AD.
Stable condition.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
