Field Visit
Date 10 November 1993
Event ID 751139
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/751139
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There are two groups of retting ponds to either side of a drystone wall which crosses a small grass- and heather-covered terrace at the end of the shelter belt to the NW of Tomnagrew. The ponds are boggy, reed-filled, sub-rectangular or oval depressions (0.8m deep), measuring up to 7.5m by 3.8m across, within upcast banks.
Five ponds lie to the NE of the wall, of which three (Braan93 127, 130, 131) are joined by channels. Another is cut into the side of a stream gully (Braan93 129) with an inlet and outlet to the stream, while the fifth pond (Braan93 128) has no visible channels.
To the SW of the wall the pools (Braan93 132-136) are disposed in two strings and are connected by channels which run out of the north-westernmost of the pools (Braan93 136). Three ponds (Braan93 132, 133, 136) have been constructed as pairs, forming a figure-of-eight.
(Braan93 127-136)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 10 November 1993
