Ross Russell, a Northern Lighthouse Board mechanical engineer found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of the Corsewall Lighthouse at the most northerly point of the Rhins of Galloway.
Written with quill and ink, the letter dated 4 September 1892 reveals the names of three engineers who installed a new type of light in the 30ft tower, reports the BBC:
Corsewall Light & Fog Signal Station, Sept 4th 1892.
This lantern was erected by James Wells Engineer, John Westwood Millwright, James Brodie Engineer, David Scott Labourer, of the firm of James Milne & Son Engineers, Milton House Works, Edinburgh, during the months from May to September and relighted on Thursday night 15th Sept 1892.
The following being keepers at the station at this time, John Wilson Principal, John B Henderson 1st assistant, John Lockhart 2nd assistant.
The lens and machine being supplied by James Dove &Co Engineers Greenside Edinburgh and erected by William Burness, John Harrower, James Dods. Engineers with the above firm.
Russell spotted it after removing panels in a cupboard, his team retrieving it with a rope and a broom handle, but they waited until lighthouse keeper Barry Miller arrived back before opening it.
The bottle has an unusual convex base, is made of coarse glass, full of tiny air bubbles, and is thought to have once contained oil.
The engineers have expressed an intention to replace the note and bottle where they had found them as well as adding another of their own.
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