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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 736272
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/736272
NS27NE 15 29828 75528
Location formerly entered as NS 2982 7552.
For James Watt Dock (NS 29677 75697), see NS27NE 17.00.
(Location cited as NS 297 757). James Watt Dock [NS27NE 17.00], 1879-86, engineer W R Kinipple. A roughly rectangular gated basin, with a short pier at the E end giving additional berthage.
Along the S quay is a fine range of red- and white-brick warehouses [NS27NE 15], with two 5-storey and attic, 7-bay blocks, with central hoists, and two 3-storey and attic, one 9-bay, the other 11. The lower buildings have ridged roofs, with circular windows in the attics.
Immediately adjacent to the N are the Great Harbour (NS37NW 18.00), 1880 on, and the Garvel Graving Dock (1871), engineer W R Kinipple.
J R Hume 1976.
This raw sugar warehouse (c. 1885) is now disused.
Information from RCAHMS (MKO) 14 August 1995
