Archaeology Notes

Event ID 873880

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO75NW 8072 c. 733 567

N56 42.1 W2 26.3

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 733 568 [N56 42.1 W2 26.2].

(Classified as Motor Vessel: no cargo specified, but former name cited as Lochside, and date of loss as November 1980). Helmsdale: [this vessel] stranded at Scurdyness [Scurdie Ness] Light[house]. All gone and broken up.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1956. 402grt. Length: 47m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.00 W2 26.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 733 567 [N56 42.1 W2 26.3]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The prominent rocky headland of Scurdie Ness is also known as Montrose Ness or Montroseness. It forms the S side of the entrance to the approach to Montrose Harbour (NO75NW 44.00).

Scurdie Ness (Montroseness) Lighthouse (NO75NW 48) is at NO 73322 56758.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 November 2001.