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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689505
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689505
NN12SE 9.01 16395 20195
Dam [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1990.
(Name cited as Lochan Shira Mor, and date as 1959). This round-headed buttress dam was built as part of the Glen Shira [2nd] phase of the Loch Sloy scheme. The contractors were A and M Carmichael Ltd.
J Miller 2002.
This dam has been built across the River Shira, which here forms the boundary between the parishes of Glenorchy and Inishail (to the NW) and Inveraray (to the SE).
The location assigned to this record indicates the centre of the monument. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NN c. 16136 20397 to NN c. 16643 19953.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2005.
