Fishtown Of Usan, Signal Tower
Signal Tower (19th Century)
Site Name Fishtown Of Usan, Signal Tower
Classification Signal Tower (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Seaton Of Usan; Ushan
Canmore ID 36292
Site Number NO75SW 11
NGR NO 72464 54601
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36292
- Council Angus
- Parish Craig
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO75SW 11 72464 54601
For (possibly associated) fishing station of Fishtown of Usan, see NO75NW 26.00.
For integral cottages (NO 72414 54387 to 72547 54625), see NO75SW 26.04.
Not to be confused with Fishtown of Usan, Lookout Tower (NO 72347 54545), for which see NO75SW 7.
(Location cited as NO 725 546). Signal Tower, Fishtown of Usan. A four-storey 19th century signal tower, built with medieval references and topped by machiolations and crenellations.
J R Hume 1977.
Four stage lookout tower to the middle left of a long range of single storey cottages. Tower rising out of pitched roof gear shed, harled, with round-arched bipartite windows to each face at different stages above ground, and with oculuc to S elevation at 4th stage, below crenellated wallhead parapet with billeted corbel course and red brick stacks (') to 2 corners.
Fishtown of Usan is a fragile remains of a once thriving fishing industry, and a good example of the traditional 'fisher town'. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
The cottages appear to be earlier than the lookout tower, and may have been built to serve a saltpan on the shore nearby as well as the fishing trade. (J Hume)
