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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 697516
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697516
NX04SE 15.01 09464 40562
Tower [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1975.
Perhaps the most attractive of all minor Scottish lights is that at Port Logan. Built in the second half of the 18th century by Col Andrew MacDouall as part of an ill-fated scheme to provide a new packet-port to Ireland, it is a two-storeyed stone building, circular on plan, now standing forlorn at the end of a derelict pier. Its lower chamber is entered from the sheltered lower level of the quay, and fitted with a fireplace and shelves. Adjacent and within the outer wall of the pier, there is a small latrine chamber of medieval characater with twin seats and a corbelled vaulted roof. An external flight of steps leads onto the upper stage of the quay and thence into the first [upper] floor of the lighthouse. Access to the lantern was gained by a ladder-hole through its stone-flagged ceiling. The lantern is square on plan, and has a circular stone cap carried on four massive stone mullions, the rebates in which indicate that there must originally have been wooden frames to hold the glazing. The light would have been provided by a portable lantern suspened from the roof.
D B Hague 1977.
(Port Logan: location cited as NX 095 405). At end of breakwater (now ruinous) and adjoining sea wall: c. 1818. Finely-built ashlar tower with cylindrical base, slightly tapered upper section curved in at top to bull-nosed top course. Hexagonal lantern with stone mullions and concave-tapered top.
J R Hume 1997.
