Archaeology Notes

Event ID 781178

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND17SW 7.00 10669 70659

Holborn Head Lighthouse [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.

Holborn Head Lighthouse

(Flashing Red & White) [NAT]

OS (GIS) AIB, November 2006.

ND17SW 7.01 ND 10697 70713 Fog Signal

(Location cited as ND 102 703). Holburn Head Lighthouse, Scrabster. Established 1863, David and Thomas Stevenson, engineers. An unusual structure with a square tower terminating one wing of the two-storey, L-plan keepers' houses. The tower becomes octagonal just below a circular walkway. The lantern is of the small triangular-paned type, with a domed top.

J R Hume 1977.

(Name cited as Holburn Head).

Admiralty List of Lights 1980.

This shore lighthouse is situated on a clifftop about 0.5km NE of Scrabster Harbour (ND17SW 5.00). It overlooks the adjacent Scrabster Roadstead.

It was built as part of the major programme of 1854-78 by D and T Stevenson, and lighted in 1862. It was bombed by German aircraft in the Second World War, but remained undamaged. Electrification followed in 1976, and automation in 1988.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 November 2006.

R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; S Krauskopf 2001.