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Rosehearty, Shore Street, Harbour
Harbour (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rosehearty, Shore Street, Harbour
Classification Harbour (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rosehearty Harbour; Moray Firth; North Sea
Canmore ID 120169
Site Number NJ96NW 30
NGR NJ 93148 67788
NGR Description Centred NJ 93148 67788
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/120169
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Pitsligo
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ96NW 30.00 centred 93148 67788
Harbour [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.
NJ96NW 30.01 NJ 93209 67940 to NJ c. 93113 67802 West Pier and Breakwater
NJ96NW 30.02 NJ 93153 67759 to NJ c. 93147 67746 Slipway
NJ96NW 30.03 NJ 93156 67836 to NJ 93178 67804 to NJ c. 93185 67765 East Pier
NJ96NW 30.04 NJ 93205 67938 West Pier and Breakwater, Lighthouse (Beacon)
Location formerly entered as NJ 93124 67774.
(Location cited as NJ 932 678 and name as Rosehearty Harbour). 18th century and later. An old curved rubble pier with some vertically-set masonry and a more modern nearly straight, coursed masonry pier with a small concrete light-tower (disused) at the end.
J R Hume 1977.
Air photographs: AAS/97/12/G25/27 and AAS/97/12/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/29.
