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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 846163
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846163
NX06NE 11.09 centred 05873 69752
Situated at Old Hound Point, an area created to produce pre-fabricated concrete parts for the Military Port 1Km to the S. It was also the terminus of the Cairnryan Military railway. Surviving remains consist of abandoned railway sidings, slipways a wooden pier and concrete casting beds.
Built in early 1941 by the Royal Engineers.
The area is visible on vertical air photographs (106G/Scot/UK 987, 3134-3135, flown 9 November 1945), which show the railway sidings, buildings and slipways.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), March 2006
