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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 807714
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/807714
HU42SE 6 47085 23878
Mousa Lighthouse [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.
Location formerly entered in error as HU 4708 2308.
This beacon or minor light is situated on Perie or Peerie Bard [name: HU 470 238], a small islet off the SE side of Mousa. It was built in 1951 by P H Hyslop (engineer), and was designed for automatic operation from the outset.
This building is depicted, but not noted, on the current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 July 2006.
K Allardyce 1998.
