Archaeology Notes

Event ID 843228

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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N56 58 W6 41

NLO: Oigh-Sgeir (Hyskeir lighthouse): [name: NM 156 962]

Canna [name centred NG 25 05]

Rum [name centred NM 36 99].

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A3537 large brass steam valve assembly (approx. 50-60 kg): from seabed.

(No descriptive details cited: identity cited as 'Mary Croan (?) and location as 'Below Lighthouse on Hysker').

NMRS, MS/829/35.

The loss of the Mary Croan is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). The name suggests that this was a fishing vessel owned by the family of that name.

Hyskeir (Oigh-Sgeir) lighthouse (NM19NE 1) is at NM 1552 9626.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 October 2003.