Archaeology Notes

Event ID 672831

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NL93NE 9.00 centred 98659 39304

NL93NE 9.01 NL 98636 39277 Dock

NL93NE 9.02 NL 98695 39299 Pier

See also Hynish, Lighthouse Establishment (Signal Station), NL93NE 8.00.

(Location cited as NL 98 39). 1837-43, engineer Alan Stevenson. A masonry dock and pier with crane for boom and the remains of a scouring system. There is a terraced pair of plain 2-storey buildings, designed for workers, a range of 1-storey ancillary buildings, a signal tower (NL93NE 8) about 30 ft (9.3m) high and a 1-storey block of flat-roofed keepers' cottages. Nearby are quarry-workings associated with the construction of Skerryvore lighthouse (NL82NW 1).

J R Hume 1977.