Archaeology Notes

Event ID 793740

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS56NE 42.00 centred 69558 58556

NS65NE 42.01 NS 69563 58490 Counting House

NS65NE 42.02 NS 6960 5838 Counting House

NS65NE 42.03 NS c. 694 584 Blantyre Lodge, Excavation

(Location cited as NS 695 585). Blantyre Mills, founded 1785 by Henry Monteith, Bogle & Co. All that remains of the large mill complex here is the curved weir and the lade, together with the end 2 bays of the 3-storey and attic counting-house block. There are 2 ranges of housing, one 2 storey, the other 3, forming a memorial to David Livingstone, the African explorer and missionary. Among the exhibits in the memorial are an excellent model of the mills and a section of a fairly early self-acting mule.

J R Hume 1976.