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Cults Lime Works

551 1/4/9/160

Description Cults Lime Works

Date 3/4/1997

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number 551 1/4/9/160

Category All Other

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1494192

Collection Hierarchy - Sub-Group Level

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511614 General view from SE of W end of lime works, which includes limestone milling departments containing ball mills, hopper stores, grading, bagging and conveying equipment 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511615 General view from SE of W end of lime works, which includes limestone milling departments containing ball mills, hopper stores, grading, bagging and conveying equipment 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511616 View from SW of two shaft kilns, now no longer functioning, and used instead to store crushed limestone 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511617 View from SW of two shaft kilns, now no longer functioning, and used instead to store crushed limestone 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511618 View from S of central section of lime works, which includes a hammer mill and conveying equipment 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511619 View from W of W side of former winding-engine house for rope-hauled tramway leading to limestone mine (with electricity transformer to right) 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511620 View from SE of W end of lime works, which includes storage hoppers, and grading and conveying machinery 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511621 Elevated view from W (at middle level of shaft kilns) of E end of site, including workshops and offices, with old lime kiln (distant right, NO30NE 23.3) 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511622 Elevated view from W (at middle level of shaft kilns) of E end of lime works, with vehicle stores in foreground, and associated brick works in background 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511623 View from NE at middle level of shaft kilns, showing the steel superstructure surrounding the kilns, and their riveted steel cladding 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511624 View from N at middle level of shaft kilns, showing the conveyor taking crushed limestone from the crusher into the former kilns for storage 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511625 View from N at middle level of shaft kilns, showing the conveyor taking crushed limestone to the former kilns for storage. The base of the crusher is visible, as is a surviving portion of one of the old conveyors used to charge the shaft kilns when they were in operation 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511626 Detailed view of middle level of shaft kilns, which were originally fired by gas produced at the site. 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511627 Elevated view from NE (at middle level of shaft kilns) of W end of lime works, showing part of dryer and hammer mill (left), and ball mills in background (centre) 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511628 Elevated view from SE of lime store (a former aircraft hangar, moved to the site after World War Two) 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511629 Detailed view of base of one of the shaft kilns, showing bottom of crushed lime storage hopper 3/4/1997 Item Level
On-line Digital Images On-line Digital Images SC 2511630 Detailed view of base of one of the two shaft kilns, showing bottom of hopper and belt conveyor 3/4/1997 Item Level
Prints and Drawings DC 51310 Cults Hill Lime Works, Lime kiln: Ground plan and Section X-X1 9/2003 Item Level
Prints and Drawings DC 51311 Cults Hill Lime Works, Lime kiln: North elevation and Upper level plan 9/2008 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 27417 Elevated view from W (at middle level of shaft kilns) of E end of site, including workshops and offices, with old lime kiln (distant right, NO30NE 23.3) 3/4/1997 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 27438 Interior view from NW of bogie carrying cement bricks in foreground, with storage shed (previously an aircraft hanger re-erected at the site) in background 3/4/1997 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 27437 Interior view from NNW of bogie carrying cement bricks after it has emerged from drying tunnel (one of three) 3/4/1997 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 27439 View from NW of brickworks main storage shed, previously an aircraft hangar, re-erected at the site after World War Two (similar to Lime Store at neighbouring lime works) 3/4/1997 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images D 27440 View from SE in brick pressing area, with two presses visible (centre and left), and bogie-loading machine (right), with tracks and turntable in foreground 3/4/1997 Item Level

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