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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689955
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689955
NS80SE 80 8527 0482
Formerly entered as railway embankment (only) at NS 85288 04828.
Not to be confused with Enterkinfoot Viaduct (NS 85786 04308), for which see NS80SE 52.
Enterkinfoot Retaining Wall: NS 8519 0506. This massive wall adjoining the A76(T) road was built c. 1848 to accommodate the railway above on the steep slope of the Nith valley down to the river immediately below the road.
Information from Prof R Paxton, 24 February 2006.
The location (NS 8527 0482) assigned to this record remains unverified, as the length and extent of the wall cannot be determined from the available map and air photographic evidence.
Vertical air photography (RAF 541/A/549 4009-10, flown 12 June 1950) has recorded about 100m length of columnar walling between NS c. 8519 0491 and NS c. 8528 0473 on the E side of the A76 and within a wooded area of marked vertical relief.
The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (GIS epoch 2) inserts what appears to be a walling symbol between NS 85277 04878 and NS 85309 04785.
The current OS (GIS) AIB Landline inserts a crenellated symbol between NS 85256 04866 and NS 85270 04840 and notes Sloping masonry [NAT] around NS 85274 04817, to the S.
The wall is not noted as such on the 1983 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map, but the above evidence is consistent with the construction of a retaining wall extending from NS c. 8519 0491 to NS c. 8528 0473, where this map depicts the road immediately below the railway embankment.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 March 2006.
