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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 868877
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/868877
NT28SE 5.12 29332 82802
A brick and concrete building in several parts is situated on a rock outcrop immediately S of the lighthouse.
The structure consists of several buildings in one group, all with viewing paltofrms. External steel ladders survive on the S elevation with many of the steel framed windows still in situ.
J Guy 1993,; NMRS MS 810/3, 42
The Port War Station is situated on or near the highest pont of the Island (c.50m OD) about 79m SSE of the Lighthouse (NT28SE 6.00). The station is a three storey tower of brick (ground floor) and concrete with viewing platforms. accessed by external metal stairs. The building has been built within the boundary of the 16th century fortification (NT28SE 1.00), the walls of which survive on the S and E lower slopes.
The mainly brick ground floor building measures 16m by 5.8m overall with upper storeys wider. The ground floor building where the remnants of wooden lining and floor with a fireplace were noted in one room along with what may have been a wooden telephone box. Further rooms were seen to the SE. Entrance to the ground floor was from the courtyard to the W.
The upper storeys were not entered as the stairs were in a dangerous condition.
The building is annotated as 'Signal Station on both the Ordnance Survey pre First World War plan and the WO plan (RCAHMS MS 879/83). The plans depict the signal station as an area very similar to that of the ground floor brick building, but without the upper storeys, suggesting that this is an earlier structure.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE, AL), 25 February, 4th and 5th March 2009
