Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665567

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ27SW 20.00 20375 71273

Covesea Skerries Lighthouse

(Revolving white with a red sector) [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, May 2006.

NJ27SW 20.01 NJ 20368 71258 Principal Keeper's Cottage

NJ27SW 20.02 NJ 20360 71268 Assistant Keeper's Cottage

NJ27SW 20.03 NJ 20432 71200 Steading

(Location cited as NJ 204 713). Covesea Skerries lighthouse. Established 1846; engineer Alan Stevenson. A tall circular tower with a corbelled machicolated parapet and a circular lantern with a domed roof on a semicircular single-storey base. The Egyptian-style keepers' houses are unspoiled.

J R Hume 1977

This lighthouse was built in response to repeated demands (from 1835 onwards); a pyramid of iron pillars was erected on Halliman's Scars in 1845 and the mainland light of Covesea Skerries in 1846. The (surrounding) high walls that were originally built for shelter were lowered in 1907.

R W Munro 1979.

This lighthouse was automated in 1984 and is now in use as a holiday home.

K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986