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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 680191
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/680191
NO02NE 4 06987 25682
See also NO12SW 50.
(NO 0698 2568) Low's Work (NR) (Weir)
OS 6" map (1959)
The Lowswark is the intake for the aqueduct supplying Perth with water. Its first mention is in 1494 as the 'Auld Wick called Lowswark'. The name seems to have applied to both weir and sluice.
S Cowan 1904; T Pennant 1792
Both the weir and sluice are still in use and are known locally as 'Low's Work'.
Visited by OS (JTT) 26 October 1965.
Low's Work Weir: part in Redgorton ph. Mediaeval, rebuilt 1622-4. Eighty yards long, unmortared boulder rubble with ashlar groins. Formed to divert water into the King's Lade through Perth.
SDD/HBM, March 1967.
(Location cited as NO 069 257). Low's Work: Medieval, rebuilt 1622-4. A low masonry weir on the river Almond, with a fairly modern wood and iron sluice controlling the flow of water to the Perth town lade, which also supplies Huntingtower Bleachworks (NO02NE 84.00).
J R Hume 1977.
