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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676171
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/676171
NN03SW 5.02 00985 31874
Lorn Furnace [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE: Bonawe Furnace
Scottish Record Office:
Erection of furnaces and forges at or near Bonaw in Argyllshire. Contract between Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochnell on the one part and Richard Grizedale, Lancashire and others, (ironmasters).
1752 GD1/168/13
(Undated) information in NMRS.
NN 0098 3187. A watching brief was conducted in June 1998 during the excavation of a drainage trench on the S side of the western charcoal shed and the digging of post-holes for a fence around the lade below the furnace. The work was recorded by photographs, notes and measured sketches.
Although the holes and drainage trench were too small to result in any detailed conclusions, they were useful in showing the general types of deposits around the site, especially the presence of well-preserved organic matter to the S of the western charcoal shed.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
P Sharman 1998.
