Archaeology Notes

Event ID 662085

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/662085

NH64NE 119.04 6522 4551 to 6533 4574

Locks [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.

This is a set of four locks, which were re-opened as a mechanised series in September 1963. The original lock-gates had been replaced between 1890 and 1906 by new ones constructed from oak and steel.

J Lindsay 1968.

At the bottom of this flight of four locks is a swing bridge (NH64NE 143) and just to the N of this stretches the large Muirtown Basin (NH64NE 120.00).

G Hutton 1992.

This series of four locks is clearly marked as Muirtown Locks on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet xii) and on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1906, sheet xii) and as Locks on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992) and on the OS Basic Scale raster map (ND).

Information from RCAHMS (MD), 3 October 2001.

Locks were emptied then renovated and repaired during the spring of 2004. Lock basins were exposed during this period and photographically recorded from the swing bridge by RCAHMS.

Visited by RCAHMS, 26 March 2004