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Stirling - Tyndrum - Fort William Military Road

Military Road (18th Century)

Site Name Stirling - Tyndrum - Fort William Military Road

Classification Military Road (18th Century)

Canmore ID 125688

Site Number NN24NE 1

NGR NN 2780 4800

NGR Description NN 2802 4500 to NN 2797 4999

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Glenorchy And Inishail (Lochaber)
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Lochaber
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NN24NE 1 From NN 2802 4500 to 2797 4999 (MR 8)

NN 2802 4500 to NN 2797 4999 approximate line of c.1750 military road (see also NN24NE 2, NN24NE 3, NN24NE 4, NN24NE 5 )

OS (ES) 11 June 1974

A R B Haldane 1962; G Taylor and A Skinner 1776

NN 2802 4500 to NN 283 469 is scheduled.

SDD 1982

The military road, as it heads N, links with the line of the Old Glencoe Road just S of Lochan Mhic Pheadair Ruaidh. Their route crosses Ba Bridge (NN24NE 6) at NN 2772 4839. However, at NN 280 498 the military road again separates from the Old Glencoe Road, pursuing a line to the W of the latter.

W Taylor 1976.

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