Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671947

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NE 6 9507 0661

(Location cited as NJ 950 064). Founded 1840, acquired by Aberdeen Corporation in 1871. This large vertical-retort works was closed in 1972 and jas been largely dismantled.

Two old holders, with cast-iron guides, still survive, as does an exhauster house with two horizontal steam engines (one by Waller of Stroud, the other by J Garvie Junior & Co., Aberdeen) and one vertical, by Waller, driving Waller exhausters. This group has been preserved by the Scottish Gas Board.

In the repair shop area small steam hammer by Cochrane of Barrhead, a Loudon Bros radial drill, and a small wooden 'foundry-type' crane.

J R Hume 1977.

(Location cited as NJ 946 074). Remains of a gasometer, Pitoddrie stadium.

Air photograph: AAS/00/12/ct.

NMRS, MS/712/100.