Sanday, Kettletoft Pier
Pier (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sanday, Kettletoft Pier
Classification Pier (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 3404
Site Number HY63NE 18
NGR HY 65944 38433
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NE 18.00 65944 38433
HY63NE 18.01 HY 6587 3845 Capstan
HY63NE 18.02 HY 6592 3843 Harbour Light
For adjacent storehouse and slipway, see HY63NE 22 and HY63NE 23 respectively.
(Location cited as HY 660 384). Pier, Kettletoft, early 19th century. A concrete pier, with a small square light-tower at the seaward end. Adjacent to the landward end is a tw-storey, 9-bay rubble storehouse. Parallel to the pier is a slipway, built of vertically set flagstone rubble, witha cast-iron capstan by Westerman, Genoa.
J R Hume 1977.
Field Visit (1999)
Kettletoft Village (HY63NE 25), with its pier and harbour, served the local fishing fleet as the main port on the island in the 19th and 20th centuries. It importance as a port has diminished since the construction of a new pier and ferry terminal at Loth at the south end of the island was completed in the 1990's. A number of buildings in the village are noted by RCAHMS. These include the post office (HY63NE 21), a substantial two-storied stone storehouse (HY63NE 22) and a cottage (HY63NE 24). The pier (HY63NE18.00) and slipway (HY63NE 23) are listed structures. A capstan (HY63NE18.01) stands to one side of the modern weighbridge, at the foot of the pier.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
