Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854792

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS06SE 166.00 centred 08898 64835

NS06SE 166.01 NS 08933 64831 Pier Buildings

NS06SE 166.02 NS c. 08795 64873 Leading Light

For Rothesay Harbour (adjacent to S), see NS06SE 53.00.

Front Pier [NAT] (at NS 0888 6484)

Front Pier [NAT] (at NS 0900 6483)

OS (GIS) AIB, June 2006.

The location (NS 08898 64835) assigned to this record defines the approximate centre of the pier.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NS 089 648). Rothesay Pier, 19th century. A masonry steamer pier, on a T plan, with an unusually long head. A further short pier forms an enclosed basin formerly used by coal and fishing boats. This is linked to the main pier by a short iron swing bridge.

J R Hume 1977.

The North (or Front) Pier at Rothesay forms the northern (seaward) part of Rothesay Harbour (NS06SE 53.00).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 June 2006.