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Glasgow, Prince's Dock, South Pier

Pier (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, Prince's Dock, South Pier

Classification Pier (19th Century)

Canmore ID 278883

Site Number NS56SE 87.06

NGR NS 56575 64881

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS56SE 87.06 56575 64881

Extends onto map sheet NS56NE.

South Pier [NAT] (at NS 5661 6483)

OS 1:1250 map, 1962.

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Desk Based Assessment (10 August 2017)

Prince’s Dock (NS56NE 4920), located on the south bank of the River Clyde in the Govan area of Glasgow, was designed by James Deas and constructed between 1892 and 1897. It was built primarily to cater for general cargo trade and comprised a large canting basin with associated quays and an entrance on the NW (NS56NE 4920) and (to the ESE of this) three basins (NS56SE 87.05-07 and NS56NE 4921) that lay parallel to the river (OS 25-inch 3rd edition map: Lanarkshire 1913, Sheets 006.09 and 006.10).

The South Pier divided the Centre (NS56SE 87.05) and South (NS56SE 87.07) Basins, measuring 460m from NW to SE by 76m transversely and was completed between 1894 and 1896. Transit sheds ran along its length, the NE range measuring 440m by 22m transversely and the SW 447m by 22m. The sheds, 2-storey brick buildings, were served by rail tracks and were fitted with chutes and cranes installed for transferring cargo between floors. The pier was also fitted along both sides and the NW end with mooring posts.

Prince’s Dock ceased to be a commercial dock in the 1970s, and the basins were filled in during the 1980s to allow the development of the Garden Festival site of 1988. Today the NW angle of the pier is preserved on the edge of the retained part of the Canting Basin but the rest of it is overlain either by modern buildings, a car park or the Festival Park.

Information from HES Survey and Recording (AMcC) 10 August 2017

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