Field Visit

Date October 1988

Event ID 924254

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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At the summit [of Glen Croe] (261m OD; NN230073) there is a round-headed granite headstone inscribed 'Rest & Be Thankful / Military Road Rep(aire)d / by 93rd Reg(imen)t 1768 / Transferred to Comm(issione)rs for H(ighland) R(oads) & B(ridges) / in the year 1814'. An earlier stone with the date 1748, set into 'a semi-circular seat made in turf', was described by Pococke in 1760, but the existing stone may be the one seen in 1819 by Southey, beside ' a seat in the green bank, looking down Glencroe'.

RCAHMS 1992 (Visited October 1988)

Pococke 1887

Southey 1929