Shallow Concrete Trough in a Wall
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Shallow Concrete Trough in a Wall
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 23 Jan 2022
This peculiar low long block is incorporated into a stone wall between fields outside Milltimber, an outer suburb of Aberdeen at its Western side. Whether this was its original purpose is unclear, though it was certainly used as a trough at some point judging by the blue pipes embedded within it. Could it have originally been a section of a long channel designed for water or blood and has been repurposed? Or was it specifically designed to hold water and maintained the water level by some clever cistern tank-like system? It would be interesting to know how long large metal water troughs have been around for at affordable prices. If this is an older version it holds a fraction of the water of today's ones.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.115308
Longitude
-2.22851