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Fishtown of Usan, Ice House General View
SC 504420
Description Fishtown of Usan, Ice House General View
Date 18/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 504420
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Ice-house (salt pan), Fishtown of Usan, Angus This vaulted rubble structure is rectangular in plan, with the stump of a chimney projecting from its east end. It was apparently built to house a salt pan, and was then converted into an ice house to serve a beach fishing station for salmon. This view shows the structure from the south east. It may have been one of a series of pan buildings, as there appears to have been a similar structure to the left. The rendered building to the left is a salmon-fishers' bothy. On the seaward side of the pan building there is a rock-cut cistern for storing sea-water to supply the pan(s) at lowere states of the tide. It is unusual to find a salt works so far north; it may have been built to supply salt for fish curing. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/221/14
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