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Publication drawing; plan of shieling hut, Black Bothy (MAR93 154)
SC 436112
Description Publication drawing; plan of shieling hut, Black Bothy (MAR93 154)
Date 29/11/1994
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 436112
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 27014 PO
Scope and Content Black Bothy, Glen Geldie, Mar Lodge Estate, Aberdeenshire Black Bothy is an unusually large turf-built structure situated beside a burn high at the inner end of the glen. It may have been an early hunting lodge shown as Boandun Geoldie on a map of 1703. The plan shows the bothy with an external embankment to protect it from flooding from the burn. The turf walls were 2.9m thick and survive to a height of 0.8m, and the bothy was 9.5m long and 7.6m wide. The stone building is of recent date. Mar Lodge estate was part of the medieval Earldom of Mar. The Forest of Mar became a hunting reserve in medieval times and was revived as such in the 19th century, after a period of sheep-farming in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1:250
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