Crinan Harbour, Pyroligneous Acid Works
Pyroligneous Acid Works (19th Century)
Site Name Crinan Harbour, Pyroligneous Acid Works
Classification Pyroligneous Acid Works (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Crinan
Canmore ID 39189
Site Number NR79SE 36
NGR NR 78332 94072
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39189
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR79SE 36 78332 94072
Chy [NAT] ( at NR 78334 94077)
OS (GIS) AIB, July 2006.
See also:
NR79SE 65.00 NR 7810 9419 Crinan Harbour
NR79SE 65.01 NR 7895 9445 Quay
NR79SE 89 NR 78280 94070 1 Harbour House
NR79SE 90 NR 78284 94075 2 Harbour House
Location formerly entered as NR 7833 9406.
(Location cited as NR 783 941). Pyroligneous acid works, Crinan Harbour, mid 19th century. The ruins of two single-storey rubble buildings, with a handsome red-brick chimneyt with a flared top decorated with white-brick lozenges.
J R Hume 1977.
NR 783 940. An archaeological watching brief was carried out at the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Crinan Harbour Pyroligneous Acid Works (c 1840-90) during August 1998. Planning permission had been granted for the construction of houses prior to Scheduling, and excavation of the first house plot to be developed was monitored in the field.
A metalled track shown on the earliest 1864 OS map running along the E side of the site to the acid works was uncovered and preserved in situ. Two stone and earth foundations of field banks originally planted with trees, one of which is shown on the earliest OS map, were also recorded.
A single drainage ditch was investigated at the northern edge of the excavation area, and traces of rig and furrow represented by two ditches separated by a bank was excavated at the eastern limit of the development site. These agricultural features are probably post-medieval and pre-date the establishment of the acid works.
The site had been ploughed and manured in the late 19th and early 20th century and no artefacts of earlier date were recovered. A buried ground surface represented by a 0.1m deep layer of peat was encountered 1.3m below the modern ground surface.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, M and K MacLeod Ltd.
F Baker 1998.
NR 7828 9409 An archaeological watching brief was carried out at the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Crinan Harbour Pyroligneous Acid Works (c 1840-90) in May 1999 during the excavation of a new drainage trench across the harbourside road.
A mid-20th-century road surface, overlying redeposited beach sands and gravels containing later 19th-century pottery, was found to overly natural beach deposits. It appears that any earlier harbourside or road was removed during the building of the 20th-century road.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
F Baker 2001a.
Photographic Record (10 May 1976)
Publication Account (1977)
(Location cited as NR 783 941). Pyroligneous acid works, Crinan Harbour, mid 19th century. The ruins of two single-storey rubble buildings, with a handsome red-brick chimneyt with a flared top decorated with white-brick lozenges.
J R Hume 1977.
Field Visit (20 February 1978)
Photographic Record (15 February 1980)
Watching Brief (August 1998)
NR 783 940. An archaeological watching brief was carried out at the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Crinan Harbour Pyroligneous Acid Works (c 1840-90) during August 1998. Planning permission had been granted for the construction of houses prior to Scheduling, and excavation of the first house plot to be developed was monitored in the field.
A metalled track shown on the earliest 1864 OS map running along the E side of the site to the acid works was uncovered and preserved in situ. Two stone and earth foundations of field banks originally planted with trees, one of which is shown on the earliest OS map, were also recorded.
A single drainage ditch was investigated at the northern edge of the excavation area, and traces of rig and furrow represented by two ditches separated by a bank was excavated at the eastern limit of the development site. These agricultural features are probably post-medieval and pre-date the establishment of the acid works.
The site had been ploughed and manured in the late 19th and early 20th century and no artefacts of earlier date were recovered. A buried ground surface represented by a 0.1m deep layer of peat was encountered 1.3m below the modern ground surface.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, M and K MacLeod Ltd.
F Baker 1998.
Watching Brief (May 1999)
NR 7828 9409 An archaeological watching brief was carried out at the Scheduled Ancient Monument of Crinan Harbour Pyroligneous Acid Works (c 1840-90) in May 1999 during the excavation of a new drainage trench across the harbourside road.
A mid-20th-century road surface, overlying redeposited beach sands and gravels containing later 19th-century pottery, was found to overly natural beach deposits. It appears that any earlier harbourside or road was removed during the building of the 20th-century road.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
F Baker 2001a.
