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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands

Date 2007

Event ID 929404

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929404

A southern breakwater was completed in 1815 (NJ90NE 7.04) and another further east from 1870–73 (NJ90NE 7.05). From the pounding they receive from the sea both have required regular maintenance.

R Paxton and J Shipway, 2007.

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Highlands and Islands' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.

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