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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 860338
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/860338
NB56NW 8 51970 66483
Butt of Lewis Lighthouse [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
Butt of Lewis. Letter concerning one.
1817 GD46/17/Vol 48
(Undated) information in NMRS.
(Location cited as NB 519 660). Butt of Lewis Lighthouse. Built c. 1863 by engineers D and T Stevenson. A tall red-brick tower and a shorter fog-horn tower, both circular in section, tapering. The ancillary buildings are of the normal flat-roofed type; the keepers' houses are, unusually, tapering.
J R Hume 1977.
This lighthouse was first lit in 1862. It was fitted with an experimental W/T system soon after 1907, machine-gunned by German aircraft in November 1940 and electrified in 1976. It also monitors the Flannan Isles light.
R W Munro 1979.
This island lighthouse is situated at the Northernmost end of the Hebrides, and hence defines the Western side of the northern entrance to the Minch. It was built by D A Stevenson in 1862, forming part of the major scheme (involving the construction of no fewer than 29 lighthouses) that was carried out by D and T Stevenson between 1854 and 1878.
The lighthouse was electrified in 1976 and automated in 1998, being one of the last three Scottish lighthouses to be so converted.
Extensive records [location not cited] survive regarding the construction of this lighthouse.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 August 2008.
R W Munro 1979; K Allardyce and E M Hood 1986; K Allardyce 1998; S Krauskopf 2001.
