Archaeology Notes

Event ID 856304

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS37SW 150.00 centred 3215 7479

NS37SW 150.01 NS 32051 74859 Leading Light (Beacon)

For associated (offshore) Perch Lighthouse (NS 32229 74866), see NS37SW 152.

Steamboat Quay [NAT] (centred NS 3198 7496)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.

(Location cited as NS 322 748). Port Glasgow Harbour, 19th century. All that is left of this once-important harbour is a stretch of quay on an L plan, with a tapered cast-iron light-tower [NS37SW 150.01]. A short distance off-shore is a reef with a small circular light-tower[NS37SW 152].

J R Hume 1976.