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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659523

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659523

NH17SW 1 13 74.

The first definite records of iron smelting are in 1608, when speed in his map marks the Loch a Bhraoin area "Rich in Iron Mines"; the site of a bloomery furnace is on the shore of Loch a Bhraoin.

A C M Mitford 1936

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