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Tayport, Firth Of Tay, Pile Lighthouse

Lighthouse (19th Century)

Site Name Tayport, Firth Of Tay, Pile Lighthouse

Classification Lighthouse (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) River Tay; Tay Estuary

Canmore ID 157553

Site Number NO42NE 120

NGR NO 46323 29325

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Ferry-port-on-craig
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District North East Fife
  • Former County Fife

Archaeology Notes

NO42NE 120 46323 29325

Pile Lighthouse

(disused) [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.

Square timber construction box frame with light on top, sitting on timber frame stilts. Approached by ladder from boat tied up to stilts.

Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996

Architecture Notes

Historic Scotland - Delisted 3.10.2000

Activities

Construction (1848)

Light established in 1848. No longer in use.

K Allardyce 1998

Field Visit (1996)

Square timber construction box frame with light on top, sitting on timber frame stilts. Approached by ladder from boat tied up to stilts.

Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Fife Ness to Newburgh 1996

Publication Account (2013)

PILE LIGHTHOUSE

In the Tay Estuary NO 46323 29325

Built 1848 on timber piles by James Leslie, supplanting NO42NE 57.

M Watson, 2013

Field Visit (2013 - 2014)

The Pile Lighthouse (NO46392930) - square timber frame construction lighthouse mounted on wooden stilts; light mounted on top of a square box shelter. Light approached originally by ladder from a rowing boat tied up at the base of the stilts. Now disused. Used to mark the entrance channel for Tayport harbour and to warn shipping away from treacherous sand banks to the south of the light. Threat: Since the Pile Lighthouse fell into disuse, its condition has deteriorated but its structure appears to be fairly sound. However, given its exposed location, this attractive feature will quickly deteriorate.

Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) 2013

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