Archaeology Notes
Event ID 712117
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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ND47NE 11.03 c. 4649 7841
Name: Pentland Skerries I (1794)
Location: N58 41 W2 55 Pentland Firth, 5 miles NE of Duncansby Head
Designed: Thomas Smith
Built: Robert Stevenson
Light first exhibited: 1 October 1794
Description: two circular stone towers, 60ft [18.3m] apart
Height of light above MHW: 171ft (52m); 141ft (43m)
Height of tower: 118ft (36m); 88ft (27m)
Light source and characteristics: fixed white. Oil lamps: 29,000 cp: 18 and 19nm nominal range
Fog warning apparatus: Nil
Manning: watched (boat from St Margaret's Hope, Orkney)
C Nicholson 1995.