RCAHMS - GENERAL Recording Event
Date 25 June 2013 - 25 June 2013
Event ID 968005
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/968005
Aberchalder - Spillway – centred on NH 33998 03813
This spillway is set into the north embankment of the canal 250m to the north of the swing bridge NH30SW 9.00. The spillway comprises a paved platform 15m in width by 69m in length. On its east side a slope of pitched cobbles 0.5m in height drops to the canal water level and on the west side a faced stone slope 3m height in height drops to the level of the river. The spillway is generally 2.5m below the level of the embankment and is edged by a stone wall of 1m height.
Visited by Scottish Canals Recording Project (MM), 25 June 2013