Archaeology Notes

Event ID 769904

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS67NW 31 centred 62671 79067

(Location cited as NS 627 790). Limekilns, Balgrochan. Early 19th century. A range of five large clamp kilns, with four smaller ones at right angles to the main range. Now overgrown, but clearly defined.

J R Hume 1976.

Scalliongour Lime and Coal Works is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire xxvii, 1865). An area of quarrying and a mine lie immediately N of the public road. The limekilns lie at the S end of the quarry and an old coal pit is marked at NS 6274 7910. A more extensive bank of kilns is shown on the 2nd edition of the map (Stirlinghsire xxvii.NE, 1898) and tramways lead eastwards towards the western edge of the workings, depicted as a spoil heap by this time and annotated 'Level', beside the Burnel Rannie. The extent of the quarrying is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1978).

Information from RCAHMS (PM), 28 September 2001.