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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 752570
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/752570
NS98SW 11 centred 9200 8228
See also Grangemouth Harbour and Docks (NS98SW 7.00).
Not to be confused with Carron Dry Dock (NS 93253 82714), for which see NS98SW 7.11.
(Location cited as NS 920 823). Shipyard, Grangemouth, late 18th to early 19th century. Reputedly the birthplace of the Charlotte Dundas, the first technically successful steamship in Britain. The present buildings are mainly of late 19th to early 20th century date, but include a three-storey and attic stone warehouse and quay built in the late 18th century by Carron Co.
J R Hume 1976.
