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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

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