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Latitude: 55.7939 / 55°47'37"N
Longitude: -5.1045 / 5°6'16"W
OS Eastings: 205475
OS Northings: 659982
OS Grid: NS054599
Mapcode National: GBR FFSD.DM9
Mapcode Global: WH1LS.KMHP
Entry Name: Thom's Water Cuts, dam 750m S of Kilmory Hill
Scheduled Date: 5 January 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7116
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Industrial: inland water
Location: North Bute
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Isle of Bute
Traditional County: Buteshire
The monument comprises a grass-covered dam and the largely dried-out remains of a reservoir, part of the Scalpsie or Barmore Cut.
The scheduled area measures 150m from north to south by 100m transversely and includes an area around in which traces of activities associated with its construction or use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it forms part of a series of aqueducts, or water-cuts, designed by the distinguished Scots engineer, Robert Thom. He died, and was buired, in Rothesay. The aqueducts and dam were constructed between 1811 and 1822 to provide a workable water-supply to Thom's cotton mills in Rothesay, and the ingenius way in which he wrung every last drop of water from off the landscape of central Bute is physically demonstrated by these remains and a lasting testimony to one of Scotland's notable engineers and inventors.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
References:
Earls, A 1945, 'Robert Thom and his work on water power for the Rothesay cotton mills', Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc, vol.13, 129.
Ferrier, J 1966, 'Robert Thom's water-cuts', Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc, New, vol.15, 3, 129.
Sharp, R, 'The Cotton Industry in Bute', Trans Buteshire Natural History Society, vol.2, 12.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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