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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 701754
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701754
NS40NW 22.01 4471 0808
(Name cited as DUNASKIN CENTRAL WASHER).
Location: Waterside
Previous Owners: Bairds & Dalmellington Limited
Opened: 1941
Year Closed: 1988
Other Details: A coal preparation plant, complete with slurry defloculation plant, built by the Coppee Company (Great Britain) Limited, described in Iron and Coal Trades Review, 25 April 1941. An associated brickworks was built nearby in the disused buildings of the Iron Works, operating until 1976, and subsequently preserved to form part of the Dunaskin Heritage Centre.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
