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Corrour Bothy
Bothy (20th Century) (1967), Building (Post Medieval)
Site Name Corrour Bothy
Classification Bothy (20th Century) (1967), Building (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mar Lodge Estate; Currour
Canmore ID 81038
Site Number NN99NE 1
NGR NN 98113 95800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81038
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Crathie And Braemar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Field Visit (31 March 1993)
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In a grassy patch about 5m to the ESE of Currour Bothy, there are the robber-trenches of a building aligned roughly E to W, which is set into the slope of the ground on its N side.
(MAR93 102)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 31 March 1993.
Field Visit (7 October 1996)
On revisiting Currour Bothy in 1996, a more detailed survey of a building, which is set into the grassy slope about 10m to the ESE of the present bothy, was carried out. The building measures 9.2m from E to W by 3.4m transversely within faced-rubble walls, 0.7m thick and up to 0.75m high. The entrance lies on the S towards the E end of the building.
(MAR93 102)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 7 October 1996
Note (24 April 2022)
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This bothy is situated in the Lairig Ghru, the high pass that divides the Cairngorm Mountains in two, and some 10km from the public road at the Linn of Dee. It was constructed in the 1870s as a deer-watcher’s hut, one of several on Mar Lodge estate, but closed in the 1920s (Allan 2017, 175). By 1928 Corrour had become a well-known retreat for mountaineers and the first visitor’s book recorded more than 2,000 climbers between June 1928 and July 1933 (Dundee Courier, 7 July 1933, p.6). The Cairngorm Club carried out repairs to the bothy in 1949 and it was adopted by the Mountain Bothies Association in 1967.
A roofed building annotated ‘Bothy’ is depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, sheet civ, 1902). The footings of another building of unclear date and function lie immediately to the E of the current bothy.
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (D D M Bratt) 6 July 2022
(Allan 2017, 174-7)
