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Fiskerton Sluice, which lies one mile upstream of Bardney Lock, was constructed as part of John Rennie’s major drainage and navigation scheme for the River Witham which was undertaken between 1812 and 1830. Part of this scheme involved constructing a new, embarked high level navigable channel for the Witham between Lincoln and Bardney Lock. The sluice at Fiskerton was built to enable high flows in this new channel to be diverted into the old meandering course of the Witham which ran via Short ferry to rejoin the main river below Bardney Lock. The sluice consisted of a masonry structure set in the north bank of the new channel and parallel to it. It had three central 6 ft wide sluice openings and two flanking 8 ft wide spillway weirs. The overall size of the structure in plan was 76 ft and 45 ft deep. The three timber sluice gates were raised vertically by means of a simple rack and pinion winding gear. In 1989 the original hand-winding gear for Fiskerton Sluice finally became redundant after 163 years service when, as part of a modernisation programme, electrically operated sluice gates were installed. One mechanism is now in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life and the other is with Boston Borough Council.{1}
Archaeological monitoring and recording was undertaken by Archaeological Project Services at Fiskerton Sluice in January 2011. Two parallel 19th century timber crossbeams were exposed during the removal of the downstream concrete apron. {2}{3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1540 - 1900 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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