Dalmally To Bonawe Military Road
Military Road (18th Century)
Site Name Dalmally To Bonawe Military Road
Classification Military Road (18th Century)
Canmore ID 127261
Site Number NN02NE 8
NGR NN 0734 2700
NGR Description NN 0999 2630 to NN 0500 2830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/127261
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN02NE 8 0999 2630 to 0500 2829 MR 11
Formerly LIN 507.
Road perambulated from NN 0500 2825 to NN 0999 2630. There are no military bridges on this section the streams being crossed by culverts or fords.
Currently published on 1:10560. (See vertical aerial photographs OS/67/202:229).
NN 0999 2630 to NN 0864 2644 military road clearly visible as metalled terrace averaging 5m wide.
NN 0864 2644 to NN 0852 2645 no trace.
NN 0852 2645 to NN 0793 0680 modern road on line.
NN 0793 0680 to NN 0774 2689 no trace.
NN 0774 2689 to NN 0521 2809 modern road on line.
NN 0521 2809 to NN 0514 2816 old road on line of military road now overgrown and superceded by modern road.
NN 0514 2816 to NN 0512 2820 modern road on line.
NN 0512 2820 to NN 0500 2829 old road on line of military road now overgrown and superceded by modern road.
Visited by OS (RDS) 10 May 1970
There are sections of the original road to the N of the modern road initially, but the rest of the line is now overlain by or obscured by the A85 as the route heads W through the Pass of Brander.
W Taylor 1976.
