Monument Type(s):

• LIME KILN (Early 19th century to Early 20th century (pre-war) - 1800 AD to 1913 AD)

Summary

The site of 19th to 20th century lime kilns.

Related records

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

• ESA4759 - 2001 watching brief on canal restoration works at Croft's Mill Bridge and Redwith Bridge by SCCAS
• ESA5527 - 2003 Landscape archaeology assessment of the Montgomery Canal (English section) by CPAT
• ESA6395 - 1993 field observation of damage to the Montgomery Canal's heritage by G. Deamer

Description

Lime Kilns, consisting of five chambers. <1>

Kiln battery not depicted-presumed destroyed. Site occupied by wood. <2><3>

A bank of five limekilns. A wharf and limekilns named on Oswestry (Morton) Tithe map of 1840 [<5>]. A considerable earthwork tump occupies the north-west corner of the wood - it may be a natural feature though the slopes look to have been scarped and it could conceivably disguise the limekilns. <4>

The lime-burning site by Redwith Bridge was one of several such sites positioned along the Shropshire Union Canal. A watching brief on restoration works at Redwith Bridge noted that though a large quantity of stone had been dumped along the south side of the road to support a crane, this did not appear to have impacted on the limekilns. It was not possible to be wholly certain of this, however. <6>

Near main road. Overgrown but traceable. The only surviving Montgomery Canal kilns not directly fed with stone from any adjacent quarries. <7>

Site photographed in 1997; heavily overgrown. <8>

<01> Ordnance Survey, 1890, OS County Series 19SW, 1890 (Map). SSA9644.

<02> Ordnance Survey, 1954, OS SJ32SW, 1954 (Map). SSA9661.

<03> Ordnance Survey, 1979, OS SJ32SW, 1979 (Map). SSA9662.

<04> Jones N W et 2 al, 2003, Montgomery Canal Conservation Management Strategy: landscape archaeology assessment (Historic landscape survey report). SSA21367.

<05> Not established, 1840, Oswestry (Morton) Tithe map (Map). SSA21933.

<06> Hannaford Hugh R, 2001, A Watching Brief on the Montgomeryshire Canal at Maesbury Marsh, Shropshire (Watching brief report). SSA20762.

<07> Deamer G, 1993, The conservation of the built environment on the Montgomery Canal: a memorandum addressed to the Montgomery Waterway Restoration Trust [draft], Appendix C (Deskbased survey report). SSA23414.

<08> Anon, 1997, Montgomery Canal photographs, July 1997, p.27 (Field survey report). SSA23851.

Sources

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