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Dunkeld - Dalnacardoch - Ruthven - Aviemore - Inverness Military Road
Military Road (18th Century)
Site Name Dunkeld - Dalnacardoch - Ruthven - Aviemore - Inverness Military Road
Classification Military Road (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Balsporran Cottage; Drumochter Pass; Pass Of Drumochter
Canmore ID 138879
Site Number NN67NW 5
NGR NN 6279 7700
NGR Description NN 6359 7500 to NN 6305 7999
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/138879
- Council Highland
- Parish Laggan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN67NW 5 6359 7500 to 6305 7999. MR 2 (Formerly Lin 501 [part of]).
The military road at this stage is going through the Drumochter Pass, peaks either side rising to over 2,000 feet. It descends to the level of the modern road between the Sow of Atholl and the Boar of Badenoch. It then more or less follows the line of the modern road.
J B Salmond 1938; W Taylor 1976; J and A Baker 1982.
NN 6359 7500 to NN 6314 7598 road visible as heather and grass covered terrace 4m to 5m wide.
NN 6314 7598 to NN 6308 7614 road visible as heather covered track 6m wide running between banks.
NN 6308 7614 to NN 6305 7633 modern road on line.
NN 6305 7633 to NN 6296 7657 road visible as partially heather covered track 3m to 4m wide
NN 6296 7657 to NN 6293 7671 modern road on line.
NN 6293 7671 to NN 6288 7686 road visible as metalled track 4 to 5m wide.
NN 6288 7686 to NN 6265 7727 modern road on line.
NN 6265 7727 to NN 6262 7737 road visible running alongside and partially destroyed by modern road.
NN 6262 7737 to NN 6260 7853 modern road on line.
NN 6261 7858 road visible as metalled track immediately W of modern road.
NN 6261 7858 to NN 6278 7903 modern road on line.
NN 6278 7903 to NN 6278 7911 road visible as metalled track now disused.
NN 6279 7916 road mutilated and destroyed by quarry.
NN 6279 7919 to NN 6297 7946 road visible as heather covered causeway averaging 4m to 5m wide.
NN 6301 7955 possible slight traces of military road on wood immediately E of modern road.
NN 6302 7961 to NN 6305 7999 modern road on line.
Visited by OS (RD) June 1969.
The line of the military road is still considered to be closely following the present A9. To the E of Balsporran Cottage (NN 6264 7920) there is a very brief section of overgrown track which is considered to be the original military road.
M Logie (Highland Council) 1997; NMRS MS/1007/2.
