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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 795542
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/795542
HY20NE 88.00 2538 0890
Stromness Harbour [NAT] (name centred HY 2599 0852)
OS (GIS) AIB, April 2008.
HY20NE 88.01 2560 0923 North Pier
HY20NE 88.02 2551 0913 New Pier
HY20NE 88.03 2552 0921 Warehouse Pier
See also:
HY20NE 67.00 HY 2536 0870 Lighthouse Commissioners' Pier
HY20NE 67.01 HY 2537 0872 Lighthouse Commissioners' Pier, crane
(Location cited as HY 255 092). Harbour, 1879 and later. Though much altered and extended, some of the original coursed-rubble work survives. At the landward side is an 18th-century, 2-storey and attic harled warehouse, with crow-stepped gables, now converted to offices.
(Location cited as HY 255 091 to HY 255 082). Warehouses and wharves, 18th century and later. All along the waterfront at Stromness are small private wharves and piers, often with storehouses and cranes. The latter are commonly of the post type, with wooden jibs. An interesting feature is Login's Well, used for watering ships until 1931. The Stromness Museum, with numerous shipping exhibits, is worth a visit.
J R Hume 1977.
Stromness harbour has few structures and no breakwater as such. It is formed by a prolonged voe heading northwards from about HY 257 082, and is partly protected by the islands of Inner and Outer Holm on the E.
The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes Harbour [NAT] around HY 256 085.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 April 2008.
