Archaeology Notes

Event ID 651576

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/651576

NN36SW 2 30500 60200

Blackwater Reservoir

Top water level 326m above Newlyn datum [NAT] (centred NN 306 601)

OS 1:10,000 map, 1992.

Extends across parts of map sheets NN25NE, NN26SE, and NN36SE, and across part of the parish of Lismore and Appin.

For (associated) KInlochleven Aluminium Works (centred NN 18947 61835), see NN16SE 3.00.

For (associated) Blackwater Dam (NN 24790 60371) and other facilities, see NN26SW 3.00.

For (associated) Blackwater Dam, Burial-ground (Construction Graveyard) at NN 24213 60253, see NN26SW 4.

This reservoir formerly supplied water for hydro-electric power generation at Kinlochleven Aluminium Works (NN16SE 3.00: centred NN 18947 61835). The associated Blackwater Dam (NN26SW 3.00) is at the W end, at NN 24790 60371.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2006.