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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 684647
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/684647
NM71SW 21 72069 12290
Lighthouse [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, June 2010.
MISCELLANEOUS:
Jura, Fladda Lighthouse.
Scottish National Buildings Record, album of Northern Lighthouses - prints.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Name: Fladda (1860)
Location: N56 15 W5 41 Firth of Lorne, 15 miles SW of Oban
Designed and built: David and Thomas Stevenson
Light first exhibited: 1860
Description: circular stone tower, painted white
Height of light above MHW: 43ft (13m)
Height of tower: 42ft (13m)
Light source and characteristics: W R G Gp Fl (2) ev 9 secs. Acetylene: 8250cp (R 2250): nominal range W11 R9 G9 nm
Fog warning apparatus: None
Manning: unwatched (automatic since 1956)
C Nicholson 1995.
