Archaeology Notes

Event ID 739482

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN50SW 12 505 031

(Location cited as NN 505 032). Aberfoyle Slate Quarries, 18th to 19th centuries. Extensive workings with waste tips and ruined buildings. The route of a narrow-gauge railway to Aberfoyle village can be traced.

J R Hume 1977.

Two unroofed buildings, probably quarry buildings, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1866, sheet cxxii), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1978).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 13 January 1998.