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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 799683
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/799683
NG88SW 5.00 centred 82757 83140
NG88SW 5.01 NG 8290 8350 Pier
NG88SW 5.02 centred NG 8308 8317 Anti Aircraft Battery
This World War II pump station for fresh water is now a private house with most of the elements of the site on private land. The pump house, water tank, pipework and the pier are on the E side of the road. The two dams and some pipework are on the W side.
Loch Ewe was a convoy assembly point and Naval Anchorage, where a lot of ships would require fresh water, The large house, now painted white was the Admiralty Pump House. The large circular tank, depicted on the current OS 1:10560 map (1968) has been removed.
J Guy 2000; NMRS MS 810/10, Vol.1, 49, Vol.3, 25-6
A visit to the former pumping station/tank found that though a house has been built on the site, some of the filtration system survived in the lower part of the building. The present owner has retained elements of the water system in the basement of the house. A further two brick built buildings, (NG 82750 83391), one of which retains soem inetrnal pipework are situated about 17m S of the Allt Donn just E of the road bridge.
The jetty was not visited.
The large 30m diameter tank shown on the OS 1:10560 scale map is visible on RAF vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK183, 4258-4259, 8 October 1946) within an embanked semi-enclosure. Several huts and hut bases are also visible in the vicinity, including a group of three hut bases at NG 8308 8317 (NG88SW 5.02).
The jetty, (from NG 82888 83469 to NG 82915 83537) also seen on the air photographs is depicted on the current OS digital 1:2500 scale maps.
Visited by RCAHMS, (DE,GS, JG, SW), August 2000
