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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 737337
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/737337
HY20NE 75.00 26809 06078
HY20NE 75.01 26798 06070 Keepers' Cottages
Not to be confused with Hoy Sound, Low Lighthouse (HY 2467 0663), for which see HY20NW 24.
See catalogue for full RCAHMS collection.
(Location cited as HY 268 061). Hoy Sound High lighthouse, completed 1851 by engineer Alan Stevenson. Hoy High is a tapering circular section masonry tower, 108 ft (33.9m) high with balcony supported on Gothic-arched corbels. The flat-roofed keepers' houses are of Stevenson's classic Egyptian pattern.
J R Hume 1977.
HY 268 060 Hoy High lighthouse and associated buildings.
Sponsors: Historic Scoland, Orkney Archaeological Trust.
G Wilson and H Moore 1997
