Archaeology Notes

Event ID 877428

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS37SE 74 centred 3692 7395

Timber Ponds (disused) [NAT]

(centred NS 3661 7409 and NS 7370 7383)

OS (GIS) MasterMap, March 2011.

Extend into (assigned) Kilmacolm parish: within intertidal zone.

Location formerly entered as NS 3402 7432 to NS 3759 7377.

This extensive array of mast or timber ponds extends for some 1.4km along the SSW foreshore of the River Clyde, between NS c. 3626 7429 and NS c. 3760 7380. It fronts parts of both Kilmacolm parish (to the W) and Erskine parish (to the E), and is assigned to these administrative areas although it is situated within the intertidal zone.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2011.

Scheduled as 'Finlaystone House, timber ponds 505m NE of... part of a system of interconnected square and rectilinear timber ponds formed by vertical timber posts. Standing on the S foreshore of the Clyde estuary between Port Glasgow and Langbank, these ponds date to the early or mid 18th century and were in use probably into the early 19th century. They functioned as storage for timber imported to Greenock and Port Glasgow from North America before its sale to local shipyards.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Finlaystone House (NS37SE 3.00) is at NS 36458 73717.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 June 2011.