RCAHMS - GENERAL Recording Event

Date 25 June 2013 - 25 June 2013

Event ID 968005

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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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