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Broadford, Limekiln Detail of drawhole
SC 494129
Description Broadford, Limekiln Detail of drawhole
Date 19/5/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 494129
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Limekiln, Broadford, Skye This is a substantial three shaft limekiln on a mound above an apparently contemporary rubble pier. Each shaft has a single draw arch. The kiln is built of rubble, and the draw arches are semicircular, tapering inwards to the drawholes. This view shows one of the semicircular draw arches. The rubble masonry round the arch has collapsed. This kiln was presumably designed to use coal imported through the adjacent pier, and to distribute burnt lime by sea from the same pier. It is unusual in not being built into a bank. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/110/3
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