Fishtown of Usan: Lookout Tower
Date 10 August 2009
Event ID 912950
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/912950
Four stage lookout tower to the middle left of a long range of single storey cottages. Tower rising out of pitched roof gear shed, harled, with round-arched bipartite windows to each face at different stages above ground, and with oculuc to S elevation at 4th stage, below crenellated wallhead parapet with billeted corbel course and red brick stacks (') to 2 corners.
Fishtown of Usan is a fragile remains of a once thriving fishing industry, and a good example of the traditional 'fisher town'. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
The cottages appear to be earlier than the lookout tower, and may have been built to serve a saltpan on the shore nearby as well as the fishing trade. (J Hume)
