Archaeology Notes
Event ID 802330
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/802330
NS66SW 259 centred 63785 62151
See also NS66SW 14.
For adjacent railway viaduct, see NS66SW 609.
For pipe bridge (adjacent to W), see NS66SW 968.
(Location cited as NS 638 622). Clyde Iron Works, founded 1786. The present plant dates basically from the late 1930's, No. 1 furnace being completed in 1939 and No. 2 in 1940. The first battery of coke ovens was finished in 1939. No. 3 furnace followed in 1948, and the second battery of coke ovens was added in 1952.
J R Hume 1976.