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Field Visit
Date June 1983
Event ID 967171
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967171
Salisbury's Dam NM 364 999 NM39NE
This massive structure was built in the late 1840s to divert the headwaters of the Kilmory River through a rock-cut lade into the Kinloch River, but was breached at the NW end a few days after the reservoir was filled. The curving dam is formed by two battered drystone walls enclosing an earth core and measures 10.5m in thickness at the base by about 5.8m in height. Its original length was about 60m of which 45m survive. The lade (NM 364 999 to NG 367 000) measures about 300m in length and includes a rock-cut section up to 7m wide and 4m deep. The footings of a rectangular building (9.2m by 3m internally) are situated on the S side of the lade 190m ENE of the dam.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1983
