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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 701997
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/701997
NS55NW 34 546 586 and 546 590.
A survey of the ponds which supplied Thornliebank Calico Printing Works was carried out. In particular, there is a massive dam here, 50m long, 5m high, 25 to 30m thick at base. At the W end is a weir leading to a wheel pit. There is an elaborate system of controlling sluices, weirs and conduits. The industrial site around NS 546 590, which has been cleared for redevelopment was also examined.
T C Welsh 1983.
NS 545 589 Massive masonry dam at NS 546 586 (DES 1983, 29) powered Newfield cotton mill (1796) at NS 5463 5873. Downstream at NS 5457 5895, second masonry dam survives in gorge of Auldhouse Burn on N side of B769, 7m high and curved in plan. Surviving lade on elevated embankment up to 10m high heads N from dam, intermittently reduced in level by redevelopment, formerly entered Thornliebank cotton mill (1785) at NS 5453 5929.
Banks of Auldhouse Burn 4m high, lined in sandstone rubble, spanned by two masonry bridges at NS 5468 5928 and immediately downstream, last remnants of Thornliebank printworks.
S Nisbet 2003
