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Invervar, Village And Old Lint Mill
Smithy (19th Century), Township (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Invervar, Village And Old Lint Mill
Classification Smithy (19th Century), Township (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inver Village; Invervar, Shrunken Township, Glen Lyon; Lintmill, Invervar; Invervar Industrial Village
Canmore ID 24524
Site Number NN64NE 8
NGR NN 66525 48235
NGR Description Centred NN 66525 48235
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24524
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fortingall
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN64NE 8.00 centred 6652 4823
NN64NE 8.01 NN 6650 4834 Invervar Lint Mill; Mill Lade
NN 6670 4825: Invervar. A few houses mark the place where the industrial village of Inver stood.
A Stewart 1928
(Location cited as NN 665 483). Lintmill, Invervar, 18th century. A circular two-storey rubble building with a conical roof, now decaying. To one side is, apparently, the site of a waterwheel, and beyond it the foundation remains of a rectangular building. Probably housed a scutch mill of the vertical type.
J R Hume 1977.
Scheduled as 'Invervar, shrunken township, Glen Lyon... the remains of a small industrial village, centred on a late 18th century lint mill, whose economy was based on flax production.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 March 2005.
Field Visit (25 September 1969)
NN 665 483. The village of Inver was employed in the production of flax (information from W Macgregor, Easter Invervar, Glen Lyon) and a disused lint mill (NN64NE 8.01) survives at NN 6650 4834.
Visited by OS (RD) 25 September 1969
Note (29 October 1997)
One unroofed, nine roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a Smithy, four enclosures and a field are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet xlvii). One unroofed, six roofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1978).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 29 October 1997
Field Visit (11 July 2000)
NN 665 483 (centre) A survey was carried out of the shrunken village at Invervar in advance of re-Scheduling. The village was based on flax production, centred on a late 18th-century lint mill. Only a few of the original houses of the village are still standing; most of the village as depicted on the 1st edition OS map surveyed in 1862 is now in ruins. Additional buildings and dykes were located that had previously not been recorded.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
M Dalland 2000
A township, comprising five buildings and a hut, all reduced to their footings as well as three roofed and occupied buildings and a lint mill, was recorded at Invervar in advance of re-scheduling by Historic Scotland. The buildings are situated on the N side of the public road through Glen Lyon. The ruined buildings and one of the occupied dwellings are grouped around the edge of an irregular polygonal enclosure. Two of the buildings on the S side of the enclosure have been partially destroyed by a modern re-alignment of the public road and their floor plan is incomplete. The external dimensions of the remaining buildings (NMRS MS 1039/32, nos.13, 14 and 16) are 13m from E to W by 5.5m, 14m from NW to SE by 6m and 13m from E to W by 6.5m respectively. Two buildings (NMRS MS 1039/32, nos.13 and 14), both built onto the dyke forming the N side of the enclosure, have two compartments although in the latter case this may be an outshot. The purpose of a small structure or hut (NMRS MS 1039/32 no.15) within the enclosure is uncertain. It is defined by a 0.5m deep cut on three sides with large boulders set along the edges and a low stony bank to the NE.
Traces of further enclosures lie to the N of the building group. A dyke forming the W side of a large enclosure extends N from the NW corner of building (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.13) to join a small elongated enclosure (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.12b) which has a secondary enclosure on its N side. The lint mill (NN64NE 8.01; NMRS MS 1039/32, no.9) and a sunken rectangular structure (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.11) measuring 3.5m by 2m internally, lie to the N, between this enclosure and what may be the head-dyke (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.8) between Invervar township and the ground of Easter Invervar to the N. A track (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.2) leads through the township, immediately W of the dyke of the large enclosure and passing to the W of the sunken rectangular structure onto the ground of Easter Invervar.
With the exception of the northernmost building (NMRS MS 1039/32) the building are depicted, roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire, 1867, sheet xlii). By the second edition of the same map (Perthshire, 1900, sheet xlii), another building is depicted as unroofed (NMRS MS 1039/32, no.14); only those buildings on the roadside continue to be roofed.
M Dalland and L Baker (Headland Archaeology) 11 July 2000; NMRS MS 1039/32, nos. 8-21
