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MHG48579 - Jetty - Ferry House

Summary

This jetty is the landing-place for the foot ferry from the Cape Wrath Hotel.

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A rapid coastal zone assessment survey was conducted by GUARD in the Autumn of 1997 commissioned by Historic Scotland from the Viking and Early Settlement Archaeological Research Project based at the University of Glasgow.

This jetty is the landing-place for the foot ferry from the Cape Wrath Hotel. At the time of the survey there was a 30 m section of the slipway visible above water with perhaps as much again submerged. The slipway is 3.8 m wide and up to 1.85 m high and constructed from large (1 m by 0.3 m by 0.15 m), dressed and mortared slabs forming the N and S sides with smaller (0.2 m by 0.1 m), rectangular stones packed in to form the middle. The slipway is cracked at the interface of this inner core and the outer faces and has been repaired with tarmac. A concrete extension has also been added at the SW. Set 20 m back from the landward end of this jetty is a functioning, cast-iron boat-winch with a two-ton capacity. This winch stands 0.98 m high on a 1.5 m by 1.6 m concrete plinth that is it self 0.29 m high. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 1999-2001 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NC 3708 6603 (67m by 35m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC36NE
Civil Parish	DURNESS

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