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View from WNW showing salt pan with church tower in background
SC 774629
Description View from WNW showing salt pan with church tower in background
Date 16/2/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 774629
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Salt Pan, Ascog Bay, Bute, Argyll & Bute This shows the pan from the north-east. The curved end is typical of many of the Scottish sea salt pans. The three holes at the base of the wall on the left provided air for the fire under the pan, and the chimney provided the draught to make the fire burn brightly. There is some doubt as to whether or not the pan was ever used. The Scottish coal-fired sea salt industry was the largest in Europe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It was mainly sited on the east coast, but there were pans on the River Clyde at Saltcoats, Prestwick, on Arran and here. This isolated salt pan was apparently built in the 18th century to use a seam of coal which outcropped nearby to evaporate seawater to produce salt, which was a necessity at the time to preserve meat, fish, cheese and butter for transport and during the winter. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/8/35
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