Archaeology Notes

Event ID 736210

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY20NW 24.00 24674 06635

HY20NW 24.01 24697 06627 Keepers' Houses

HY20NW 24.02 24693 06615 Dry store

HY20NW 24.03 24702 06610 Coal Store

HY20NW 24.04 Centred 24709 06601 Boundary Walls

HY20NW 24.05 24700 06582 Sundial

Not to be confused with Hoy Sound, High Lighthouse (HY 2680 0607), for which see HY20NE 75.

(Location cited as HY 247 066). Hoy Sound Low lighthouse, completed 1851 by engineer Alan Stevenson. Hoy Low is a n unusually short tower, with 1-storeyed keepers' cottages. It was made automatic in 1966.

J R Hume 1977.

HY 246 066. Hoy Low lighthouse and associated structures.

Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Orkney Archaeological Trust.

G Wilson and H Moore 1997.