Archaeology Notes

Event ID 748988

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS88SE 76.00 centred 88109 82536

NS88SE 76.01 NS 881 825 Egg-end Boiler

NS88SE 76.02 NS 88208 82519 Main Office Building

NS88SE 76.03 NS 8858 8255 (NS 8834 8249 to NS 8896 8278) Carron Canal

NS88SE 76.04 NS 8821 8274 Railway Signal Box

NS88SE 76.05 NS 87915 82317 Weir (River Carron)

Works [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE

Scottish Records Office

Longien's drawings, sketches of grates, fenders and stoves.

19th -20th c GD58/15/6

Printed catalogue of designs.

1824 GD58/15/5

Drawings of design for jambs, stoves and pans

1807? GD58/15/4

Drawings, fireplaces and stoves

18th - 19th c GD58/15/3

Two drawings and design books

1820-1869 and 1828-1840 GD58 15/1 and 15/2.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NS 880 824). Carron Ironworks, founded 1759. A large complex of buildings of various dates. Most of the older buildings and equipment have been demolished, but the main office block, a long two-storey and attic range built in 1876, is still in use. On the other side of the road from the offices can be seen the canal which linked the works to the River Carron. One of the most interesting survivals is the water-supply system, with a long lade from the river Carron (at NS 856 820) to reservoirs just W of the works.

J R Hume 1976.

The Iron Works are visible on a series of WW II oblique air photographs (No.1 CAM, AF815-AF817), flown 8 May 1942. The photographs show the works with partial camouflaging.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2004