Things are moving on with the Steelbank fish pass.  The weir has now been broken out to create space for the Larinier flights on this two flight technical fishpass. The weir at Steelbank is around 100m long and is also known as Packhorse weir.

As you can see the weir is constructed of stone sets, with a crest stone that has an iron lip along it.  This would have been built without the use of the cranes or hydraulic machinery that Bailey’s are using to lift and shift all the heavy stuff around.  These weirs were built to last!

As part of the works, and because of the age and historical use of the weirs in Sheffield, the contractor has to have an ‘archaeological watching brief’ .  This means that there is an archaeologist from West Yorkshire Archaeology Services on site to record any finds or anything else of interest.  Marina found an assortment of iron objects including two canon balls, one considerably larger and heavier than the other!  We’ll keep you posted if there is anything of more interest that she discovers.