Nigg, Watch Tower
Tower (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Nigg, Watch Tower
Classification Tower (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen Harbour
Canmore ID 77017
Site Number NJ90NE 21
NGR NJ 95 05
NGR Description NJ c. 95 05
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Nigg (City Of Aberdeen)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Kincardineshire
NJ90NE 21 c. 95 05
Site of watch tower: documentary record [unspecified] only.
NMRS, MS/712/84.
The exact site of this watch-tower on the S side of Aberdeen harbour is not recorded and likely positions that it may have occupied have been cultivated or built over.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 25 June 1996.
Field Visit (24 April 2008)
NJ 95 05 (area) Medieval watch tower (NJ90NE 14), possibly 14th-century. The supposed and very approximate
site of a medieval watch tower on the basis of documentary evidence (Aberdeen City Council SMR).There is no clear indication of where this stood.
Cait McCullagh and John Wood (Highland Archaeology Services Ltd), 2008.
