Spynie Quarry is situated a few miles north of Elgin and has been worked for around 150-200 years. Tennants (Elgin) Ltd. are the current licence holders and are crushing rock […]
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The Elgin Cruck
Recent research into Anglo-Norman urban design (Barrett, 2019) highlighted the lack of determined archaeological excavation in Moray’s burghs: especially the very scanty nature of evidence for the built environment. A […]
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RECORD DIFFICULTIES A feature of the public supply of electricity, from its introduction into Britain in the 1880’s until 1971;, has been the doubling of the demand every ten years. […]
Continue readingNotes on ‘Stake and Rice’ in Elgin
This is not a mis-spelt menu! …… but a type of internal partition walling, an example of which has recently been found in a ruined house in Elgin. The derelict […]
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