Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658406

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG53SE 3 55417 34069

Pier [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1988.

See also NG53NE 8, NG53NE 9, NG53NE 13, NG53NE 14, NG53NE 16 and NG53SE 7.

For the loss of the SV Spindrift (apparently beneath this pier), see NG53SE 8001.

Location formerly entered as NG 554 341.

(Location cited as NG 554 341). Suisnish Pier, built c. 1914 for William Baird and Co Ltd. The bases of four ore-calcining kilns and a large concrete ore bin which discharged into a conveyor which carried ore to the pier.

J R Hume 1977.

Scheduled (with NG53NE 8, NG53NE 9, NG53NE 13, NG53NE 14, NG53NE 16 and NG53SE 7) as 'inverarish, iron ore mine, kilns and associated remains... the remains of an ironstone mine and processing complex established by William Baird and Co of Coatbridge and in operation during the First World War.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.