Millhouse, Weighhouse View from WNW showing NW front
SC 554044
Description Millhouse, Weighhouse View from WNW showing NW front
Date 29/3/1979
Collection John R Hume
Catalogue Number SC 554044
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Gunpowder village, original weighouse, Millhouse, near Kames, Argyll This village was built to serve a gunpowder works which was founded in 1839. The remains of the works and village cover a large area. This view shows the building which served as the village post office in 1979, but which was built to house the indoor part of a weighbridge. The external platform and internal steelyard have been removed. The Kames gunpowder works was sited to take advantage of remoteness from centres of population, convenience for shipping, and availability of suitable wood for charcoal making. The works had its own fleet of vessels to convey the product. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H79/29/16
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