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Field Visit
Date 12 November 2014
Event ID 996588
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/996588
This cableway, which is situated immediately SW of Glespinhope, comprises a pair of steel track cables strung across the River Clyde and supported at a height of at least 2.1m on both the east and west banks by a timber frame constructed of old telegraph poles behind which the cables have been anchored into the ground. A steel cage suspended below the cables on small wheels (one above each corner of the cage) lay partly submerged in the river on the date of visit and there was no sign of the haulage rope that would have been required to pull the cage back and forth. Currently in a state of dilapidation, the cableway would have been used to transport goods across the river, possibly even sheep in times of spate.
Visited by RCAHMS (AM) 12 November 2014.
