In 2005 I advised RCAHMS and subsequently was in correspondance with WoSAS [West of Scotland Archaelogical Service] of a couple of possibly interesting structures, nothing much seemed to happen and I never saw mention of them in Canmore or a dot in PASTMAP. Imagine how chuffed I was to come across both in PASTMAP yesterday - and subsequent pages on the WoSAS site - with credit too. Apollo has seen both but here are pics to remind him and links to the WoSAS pages.
Captain, well done - maybe we should all be creating a collective, to bombard RCAHMS/WOSAS with all the things they've yet to find/log.
I actually spotted another man-made feature along the Clyde last week, but have yet to follow up, and expect it to be logged somewhere as it's pretty obvious. Somewhere at the back of the whiskey stores at the back of London Rd, there's a stream running into the Clyde, but when I looked closer it was seen to be constructed from brick sized stones, laid to form the bed and side of the channel down to the river. Once it arrived there, the outlet had clearly been built of larger stones. I'd actually forgotten about until I read this.
There's nothing listed in our friend's collections.
Couldn't help notice this, or rather historian's missing of the links in the Captain's post.
This is one of my bugbears in the present styling of the forum, as defined by the core coding, and it means that links properly coded into messages are far from obvious - if I can barely spot them and I know they are there, then what chance to ordinary members have?
I've had a play with the styling, but so far, changing the displayed format of a link in a message has a universal influence, and affects the whole forum, completely screwing some sections that used links to provided active 'buttons' and shortcuts to various sections.
I'll have another go at it, but if I can't isolate the links in messages, might ask the writer if there's an easy solution.
There are easy solutions I could use now, but they also mean customising and re-customising things if there is an upgrade to the forum software, and I've grown tired of that particular game, which means having to keep a list of changes that need to re-installed every time there is a new version. I can do better things with my time than keeping on re-doing the same thing over and over.
I actually spotted another man-made feature along the Clyde last week, but have yet to follow up, and expect it to be logged somewhere as it's pretty obvious. Somewhere at the back of the whiskey stores at the back of London Rd, there's a stream running into the Clyde, but when I looked closer it was seen to be constructed from brick sized stones, laid to form the bed and side of the channel down to the river. Once it arrived there, the outlet had clearly been built of larger stones. I'd actually forgotten about until I read this.
There's nothing listed in our friend's collections.
Is that at the bottom of Dalbeth cemetery ? If so its the Tollcross burn. I took a couple of picutres a few years ago but I think I've lost them. I do have a picture of its source near Easterhouse.
I can't spot the exact location, wasn't paying enough attention, it would be a little way off to the west though
But, it's the only thing of any significance flowing there, so if the burn is the only significant thing flowing, then it must be Tollcross Burn
I was a bit diverted, as the smell from the bond/Dewar's area kept on distracting me
There a significant run off coming from the place and making its way across the walkway, and I stood there for quite a while, contemplating the design of a collection and re-distillation system to recover the whiskey that is clearly being washed out of the place and into the river. When I worked in similar places, you had to marvel at the cleaners wandering around and mopping up the spillages and over-runs from the lines. No real cost involved, as the production areas are bonded, so the product hasn't attracted any duty at that stage.
This is probably why the salmon have been spotted making their way back up the river from the sea, and why the swans and duck all congregate around here
I chanced by the ice house this evening, don't know if I upset the caretaker though - he shut the crem gates while I was down there, and I got the 'Arms Folded Eyeball' as I walked out. Maybe it was the camera. Irrelevant since you can wander along the Clyde for access anyway.
Weird evening light, some pics needed heavy hand to restore remotely proper colour.
Good pictures Apollo, you've no lost yer touch! but did you have a picnic there? Kit-Kat wrapper, Fanta & a Coke can, hungry? Pic 5 is a shining example of my belief that the corner was a filled in trapdoor hatch type entry to a lower level where the ice was kept.
Good man, you saved me having to edit the post and mention the rectangular area full of leaves, marking that trapdoor, I don't think there can be any doubt that the ice-house proper was 'down below'.
I take pics as they come, and it was odd to see that one entrance was full of junk, while the other is practically clear.
While it would be unfair to say the place is a mess, there's either been some vandalism or unwanted visitors, and the area to the front has a fair amount of take-away waste, polystyrene trays and like, but then again, these could easily have been blown here, and be gone just as quickly.
A few of the memorials have been displaced, and one large glass picture frame and contents lies nearby, smashed and with its contents lying beneath. I thought it was deliberate at first, but having spotted some others, suspect they've been caught by the recent high winds.
I thought I should let RCAHMS know that Dumbarton/Dunbarton was missing from their list of towns in the mapping gazetteer. Seems they use a list which comes from OS along with the mapping so nothing can be done about it. At least 2 other towns have been missed out too. Dumbuck and Bowling do not appear in the list of villages. It seems as if someone turned over two pages! Either that or sombody has it in for Dunbartonshire.
Strange thing is on the OS get a map site, Dumbarton works well.
Interesting, as I always wondered how/why items were in their list of place names - OS is the obvious source I suppose.
I always remember the Dumbarton/Dunbartonshire difference as they handily run alphabetically from smaller to larger, and note that RCAHMS does have the area of Dunbartonshire in their list.
Oddly, despite meaning to look at the derivation and history of the names, I've never got round to learning the background to the Dum and Dun prefixes, but will do it someday, unless someone happens to know already.
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