Dupplin Castle Policies, Backhill Park, Mill Ponds
Pond(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dupplin Castle Policies, Backhill Park, Mill Ponds
Classification Pond(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dupplin Estate; Dupplin Castle Estate; Coldstream Burn
Canmore ID 88483
Site Number NO02SE 134
NGR NO 0582 2068
NGR Description NO 0582 2068 and NO 0601 2067
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/88483
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Aberdalgie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO02SE 134 0582 2068 and 0601 2067
See also NO02SE 113.
For Dupplin Castle (NO 0565 1947) and related buildings and monuments, see NO01NE 22.00.
These two ponds are partly infilled. Each was dammed at the E end by a concrete dam (now breached) with an iron screw-sluice in a timber framework. They probably supplemented the water supply to mills at the Milltown of Aberdalgie (NO 076 206) via the Coldstream and Cotton Burns.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 24 November 1995.
