Note

Date 11 August 2014

Event ID 980188

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/980188

A series of at least five drainage channels built by soldiers in 1763 in an attempt to improve land on the forfeited estate of Rannoch Moor. The scheme to create agricultural land was unsuccessful, but the trenches can still be seen. The southern part of the trenches has been cut by the railway.

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 11 August 2014.