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View of Culross from the pier.
SC 368250
Description View of Culross from the pier.
Date c. 1895
Catalogue Number SC 368250
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of F 5521 PO
Scope and Content 1895 view of Culross, Fife Culross became a burgh of barony dependent on the nearby Cistercian abbey in 1490. The abbey's coal-mines passed to Sir George Bruce in 1575. In 1592, his friend, King James VI, turned Culross into a royal burgh with a monopoly on iron scone-girdles. The tower of the medieval abbey church is just visible above the trees in the middle of the picture. The early 17th-century town-house (left) is recognised by its central tower, an 18th-century addition. By the late 19th-century, Culross was 'a mere skeleton of an ancient town'. Its coal mine had been flooded in 1625, while its iron scone-girdle industry had been damaged by loss of monopoly in 1727and then killed off by competition from Carron Ironworks. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 22706 J.V
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