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Berriedale Navigation Beacons, South Tower
Tower (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Berriedale Navigation Beacons, South Tower
Classification Tower (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Leac Ghlas, Lat 298b
Canmore ID 100540
Site Number ND12SW 25.01
NGR ND 11807 22208
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/100540
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND12SW 25.01 11807 22208
For related archive and manuscripts, see ND12SW 25.00
Two towers either round or square set a furlong apart and said to be built of land clearance stones although Batey (1982) doubts this. The more northerly is 6.5m high and the other 5m high and severely damaged on the south side.
Both sites are annotated 'Survey Control Point' on the OS 6" map, Caithness, 1st ed., 1871 but they are not noted in the Name Book.
D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931; C Batey 1982.
This is the south tower, not to be confused with ND12SW 25, ND 11969 22331
