Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702472

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702472

NS56NE 104 5723 6861.

See also NS56NE 217.00.

Scheduled with adjacent railway tunnel (NS56NE 218).

Information from Historic Scotland.

This three-arched structure, with walls constructed at each side of the towpath, constitutes a nineteenth century spillway, which channelled off overflow water into a sloping drain.

H Brown 1997.

This spillway, or sluice, is visible on the OS 1:1250 Basic Scale Digital Map (2000), just to the NW of the point where a now dismantled railway had passed under the canal.

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 24 August 2000.