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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 712117

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/712117

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.

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