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MHG12866 - Tongue Ferry (East Pier)

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Marked on 1st ed OS, now on inland side of bridge/causeway - area used as public car park for visitors with display board - hAW 4/2004

See also Ford or causeway NC

NMRS Notes:
NC55NE 26 5809 5849
Not to be confused with Tongue, Pier (NC 5915 5887), for which see NC55NE 27.

(Location cited as NC 851 [sic] 585). Ferry Pier, Tongue, E C19th.A simple rubble slipway, now partly obscured by shingle.
J R Hume 1977.

This is the ferry-terminal at the east side of the Kyle which ran to the pier (NMRS NC 55 NE 24:site no 13 above) on the W side. It is a 57 m N-S long pier or jetty which is of dry-stone construction, patched up with mortar at the landward end. The surface of this pier/jetty is 4.75 m wide and has iron mooring-rings, pins and -bolts still in situ running down the middle. The pier/jetty is 1 m high at the landward end, running down to 0.6-0.7 m high at the the south end. The south half of this feature is covered in seaweed and sand and the whole structure has been damaged by wave and storm-action. This should be surveyed in conjunction with the various structures associated with the ferry-transportation here (NMRS NC 55 NE 30, 24 and 29 as well as no 51 above and the small pier on Eilean Thunga. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 5809 5850 (21m by 61m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC55NE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND

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