Archaeology Notes

Event ID 715106

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT29SE 44.00 28549 91932

NT29SE 44.01 NT 2853 9197 to NT 2856 9197 capstans

NT29SE 44.03 NT 2854 9219 warehouse

NT29SE 44.03 NT 2856 9221 warehouse

(Location cited as NT 285 920). Kirkcaldy Harbour, improved 1843 and 1909. Consists of an inner and an outer basin, the former gated, with two piers.There is a swing bridge over the entrance to the inner basin. The works are executed partly in rubble and partly in concrete, and built 1909. Associated with the harbour are 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-storey warehouses of various dates.

J R Hume 1976.

A photographic survey of the various surviving components of the harbour was carried out prior to a proposed development designed to transform and rehabilitate the area. The harbour's commercial facilities had been disused for many years.

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 24 June 1998

Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996