Archaeology Notes
Event ID 695389
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695389
NK14NW 128.08 1361 4577
Light
(Fixed Red to Seaward) [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1974.
(Peterhead 1: location cited as NK 137 458). At entrance to S harbour: Thomas Stevenson, 1849. Tapering octagonal tower, bull-nosed ashlar, with two projecting polished ashlar top courses and deep blocking course, forming base for octagonal lantern (Milne & Son, Edinburgh) with pyramidal roof and mushroom ventilator. Lantern glazed only on seaward side.
J R Hume 1997.