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Alnessferry

Quay (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Alnessferry

Classification Quay (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 90261

Site Number NH66NE 51

NGR NH 66344 66412

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Resolis
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Ross And Cromarty
  • Former County Ross And Cromarty

Archaeology Notes

NH66NE 51 6634 6640

Disused quay, formerly associated with the Alness ferry.

J Wordsworth, SSSIs, Scottish Natural Heritage, 1993

A disused quay is marked and named on the first and second editions of the OS 6-inch maps (Ross & Cromarty 1880 & 1904 respectively, sheet lxv), but is not named on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992).

Information from RCAHMS (FO) 23 January 1996

Quay.

Destroyed by landfill for electric cable.

19th century AD or earlier.

CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.

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