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Sauchar Point, Lady's Tower
Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned), Structure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sauchar Point, Lady's Tower
Classification Commemorative Monument (Period Unassigned), Structure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Elie Ness, Lady's Tower
Canmore ID 162396
Site Number NT49NE 71
NGR NT 49967 99449
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/162396
- Council Fife
- Parish Elie
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NT49NE 71.00 49967 99449
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996
NT49NE 71.01 c. 499 994 Vaulted Chamber
One unroofed circular structure annotated 'Ruin' is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map Fife and Kinross 1855, sheet 26) and is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1987) annotated 'Lady's Tower'.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 17 September 1999.
Site recorded by Maritime Fife during the Coastal Assessment Survey for Historic Scotland, Kincardine to Fife Ness 1996
Field Visit (2013 - 2014)
Reconstructed folly, Ladies Tower.
Visited by Scotland's Coastal Heritage at Risk (SCHARP) 2013
Project
Recording Scotland's graffiti project was designed to review the range of historic and contemporary graffiti art across Scotland. It involved desk-based assessment and fieldwork at a number of example sites, to consider recording methodologies and dissemination practices.
Between 2016 and 2017, phase 1 of the project aimed to:
Aim 1: review a range of historic and contemporary graffiti art from across Scotland, already present in Canmore.
Aim2: undertake a research review of previous approaches to recording graffiti art in Canmore and other HERs, review and develop the current Thesaurus terms.
Aim 3: test and develop a range of recording methods within the following programmes or projects: Discovering the Clyde programme (1223), Scotland’s Urban Past (1222), Architecture and Industry projects, such as Urban Recording Projects (1028), Area Photographic Survey (311) and the Tomintoul and Glenlivet Landscape Partnership (1167).
Aim 4: the following test sites will be considered for research into the range of historic and contemporary graffiti. They will be analysed to demonstrate the different ages, contexts, styles and survivals of historic and contemporary graffiti: Polphail village (Canmore ID 299112), Scalan farmstead (170726), Cowcaddens Subway Station (243099), Croick Parish Church (12503), Dalbeattie Armament Depot (76279) and Dumbarton Rock (43376).
Aim 5: to research the potential for social media to play a role in crowd-sourcing information and archiving Scotland’s graffiti art.
In 2017-2019, phase 2 of the project aimed to:
Aim 1: To enhance the NRHE to the point at which it can be said to adequately represent the broad range of historic and modern graffiti that is evident throughout Scotland, and to explore ways by which that information can best be disseminated.
Aim 2: To develop guidelines that will convey the HES approach to researching and recording graffiti.
Aim 3: To write a specification for a book on Scotland’s graffiti.
Aim 4: To develop external partnerships to explore further ways to record graffiti and to identify and explore potential funding streams to enable further knowledge exchange and research.
The project was managed by Dr Alex Hale, with contributions from staff across Herirtage and Commercial and Tourism directorates.
