The Old Limestone Silo, Craster
From £32.00
Dunstanburgh Castle sits hazy on the headland beyond, framed by the surviving concrete base of a limestone silo built on Craster's south pier in 1914, once used to store chippings from the nearby quarry before loading onto boats, its wooden superstructure gone since the start of the Second World War.
View sizes & buy →About Craster and Dunstanburgh Castle
The concrete base visible on Craster's south pier is what remains of a silo built in 1914 to store whinstone chippings quarried nearby, before they were loaded onto boats; its wooden superstructure was dismantled at the start of the Second World War. Beyond it, the jagged ruins of 14th-century Dunstanburgh Castle sit on an isolated headland, reachable only on foot.
