Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673589

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT67NE 424 68056 79289

(Location cited as NT 680 793 and NT 681 792). Dunbar Harbour. The harbour is in two parts. The older section (c. 1710-30) consists of a basin formed by a curved rubble pier and a shorter straight pier. Some of the masonry is vertically set. A low wharf within the curved pier was for coal importation (1761).

The newer part - the Victoria Harbour (1842) - is formed by a sea wall linking two rock outcrops, together with a quay along the shore parallel with the wall. This section has two entrances, one to the old harbour channel, spanned by a hand-operated, wrought-iron, two-leaf bascule bridge; the other, at the N end, is open.

There is as 3-storey, 5-bay, harled store (Spott's Granary) on the old short pier.

J R Hume 1976.