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[Note written across the columns] Tacitus cap. 22. vitoe Agricolæ tells us, that Agricolae, in the summer which began his sixth expedition in this part of Britain, he sounded the Havens upon the north coast of the Forth, and there was none so commodious for great vessels to enter in as this...Sibbalds Fife & Kinross
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says the Harbour was repaired by Oliver Cromwell, by agreement with the Town Authorities for the delivery of the Town into his hands,this is generally believed by the inhabitants but there is no notice of such an agreement in the Burgh Records. A printed report of the Borough of Burntisland, taken from Local Reports on Municipal Corporations in Scotland says of the Harbour
"The Harbour has always been an object of high consideration with the Burgh. The Charter of 1585 bears that great expense had been incurred in constructione et reperatione portus ejusdem Portus Gratiæ bocat."
This would prove that the Harbour was made and used long before Cromwells time.