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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 729967
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729967
NX97SE 33 centred 97472 73568
For Dumfries Harbour (centred NX 973 756), see NX97NE 125.
For axe-hammer found near Kingholm Quay, see NX97SE 28.
(Location cited as NX 975 735). Kingholm Quay, rebuilt c. 1836-40. A quay running along the E bank of the Nith, with a small, badly-silted basin. This has red-brick, single-storey transit sheds. Nearby was an interesting three-storey and attic, four-bay warehouse, with two-storey dwellinghouses adjoining, unfortunately rather tastelessly modernised. The basin is used by pleasure boats.
J R Hume 1976.
The existing harbour-works at Kingholm date only from the first quarter of the 19th century; an earlier quay was built in 1746, and a landing-place of some sort was in use here in 1707.
A Graham and A E Truckell 1977
