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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 777073
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/777073
NN26SW 3.00 24790 60371
Dam [NAT] (at NN 247 603)
OS 1:10,560 map, 1968.
NN26SW 3.01 NN 24731 60260 to NN 20214 60445 Aqueduct
NN26SW 3.02 [NN 202 604 to NN 247 602] Possible construction railway
NN26SW 3.03 NN 20188 60458 Lower Penstock Valve House
For (associated) Blackwater Reservoir (NN 30500 60200), see NN36SW 2.
For associated burial-ground (navvies' or construction graveyard) at NN 24213 60253, see NN26SW 4.
For (relevant) field survey area (AOC, 1997), see NN26SW 27.
Location formerly cited as NN 247 603.
Extends across parts of map sheet and Kilmallie parish.
This dam was constructed to impound the Blackwater Reservoir (NN36SW 2), which formerly supplied water for hydro-electric power generation at Kinlochleven Aluminium Works (NN16SE 3.00).
The location assigned to this record indicates the apparent midpoint of the structure. The available map evidence suggests that it extends from NN c. 24944 60770 to NN c. 24612 59900; the norrthern parts extends into Kilmallie parish.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2006.
