Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650563

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT26SW 63.02 22143 63532

Sluice Tower [NAT] (at NT 22108 63551)

Overflow [NAT] (at NT 22205 63576)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.

For adjacent Glen Cottage, see NT26SW 63.03.

Not to be confused with the minor dam carrying the track along the N side of the reservoir across a burn, for which see NT26SW 63.04.

The earthern dam ('bank') measures up to 77ft (23.5m) in height and 86,335 cu yds (66,005 cu m) in volume. Situated at a point where the stream channel was narrowed by a projecting rocky spur, its construction gave considerable difficulties. In excavating the foundation, it was discovered that the gravel bed was no less than 53ft (16.2m) deep; when this was removed to make the required clay-puddle dyke, the hill on the S side (comprising loose and friable felspathic trap) collapsed.

J Colston 1890.