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Inverurie and Port Elphinstone canal basin

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1900 historic-map era

Garioch burgh served by the 1806 Aberdeenshire Canal terminus at Port Elphinstone until railways bought the line in 1854, with paper mills following; basin ground and Don-side margins carry canal and mill era refuse.

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