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Latitude: 57.4694 / 57°28'9"N
Longitude: -1.878 / 1°52'40"W
OS Eastings: 407418
OS Northings: 842128
OS Grid: NK074421
Mapcode National: GBR P8QZ.G9G
Mapcode Global: WHBQF.4J08
Entry Name: Cairn Catto,long cairn
Scheduled Date: 6 July 1973
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3276
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: long cairn
Location: Longside
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Peterhead South and Cruden
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
David Cunningham, Harbour Engineer, with Charles Ower as Consulting Engineer; ironwork by John Stewart and Sons, Irvine, circa 1874. Single-storey whitewashed brick and timber-clad transit sheds on W side of Victoria Dock.
W ELEVATION: brick with ashlar base and eaves courses. Rusticated quoins, alternatively vermiculated, to 2 timber sliding doors with malleable iron lintels. Square-section cast-iron rain water goods.
E ELEVATION: colonnade of cylindrical cast-iron columns with mask rainwaterheads (reputedly the face of David Cunningham). Timber sliding doors the entire length of the wall under malleable iron girders.
GABLES: brick, blocked doorway with ashlar quoins to S elevation.
Slate roofs.
INTERIOR: wrought-iron tension-rod and angle-iron roofs
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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