Archaeology Notes

Event ID 789182

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN29NE 5 2801 9500 to 2999 9818

NN 2800 9500 - 2864 9583 Wade's road on impassable forest track.

NN 2864 9583 - 2987 9798 A82 on line.

NN 2987 9798 - 2999 9818 The superseded trunk road on the line of the Wade road is now a disused track.

Visited by OS, June 1964 and February 1979.

Initially the military road takes the form of a grassy forestry track heading N. The track becomes very overgrown with gorse and trees in the vicinity of NN 2854 9569 and finally the overgrowth becomes so dense that the track becomes impassable.

There is some uncertainty as to the line taken by the military road through Laggan. It may have taken the route now overlain by the A82 or it may have followed a line slightly further W. There are no extant signs of the latter route apart from a short section of disused grass track visible immediately to the S of the Laggan Swing Bridge. It is possible to see the overgrown remains of old asphalt metalling between fragments of flanking banks.

Just S of Laggan Swing Bridge the military road heads E.

M Logie (Highland Council) 1997; NMRS, MS/1007/3.