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Ackergill Tower (or Ackergill Castle) is located on the coast of Sinclair's Bay, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) north of Wick, Caithness, in northern Scotland. It was built in the early 16th century, and is a Category A listed building. [1] The building is a five-storey oblong tower house. The four-storey wing to the rear was added in the early 18th ...
In 1876, the 120-ton vessel Emilie, driven ashore in Sinclair Bay, near Ackergill Tower. 9 men, led by Capt. John Cormack, launched a small salmon coble to their aid, but it capsized on the first return journey with three crew of the Emilie. Only 5 men survived from the coble, and only 1 man of the 6 crew of the Emilie was saved. Capt.
In Ackergill is a famous tower/castle named Ackergill Tower. In the 1920s, archaeologists excavated an ancient cemetery in an elongated sand mound at Ackergill, finding ten graves with sixteen burials. Most inhumations were in long cists. Grave goods were found in only one of the burials.
It is a Z-plan tower house dating from the sixteenth century. [15] Fetteresso Castle passed from the Clan Strachan to the Clan Keith chief, Earl Marischal during the early 14th century. [15] Ackergill Tower, a couple of miles north of Wick, Caithness is a tower and mansion that dates from the fifteenth century. [15]
John Campbell (4 July 1857 – 4 August 1942) was a New Zealand architect, responsible for many government buildings in New Zealand, among them the Dunedin Law Courts, the Public Trust Building in Wellington, and Parliament House.
The John Hancock Tower, Boston's tallest building, will be sold to real estate investment trust Boston Properties Inc. (BXP) for about $930 million. Boston Properties will pay about $290 million ...
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