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Milton Of Forteviot, Mill Pond
Curling Pond (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned), Mill Pond (Period Unassigned), Sluice (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Milton Of Forteviot, Mill Pond
Classification Curling Pond (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned), Mill Pond (Period Unassigned), Sluice (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 89796
Site Number NO01NW 108.01
NGR NO 0492 1779
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/89796
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Forteviot
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO01NW 108.01 0492 1779
This pond is situated in pasture about 200m S of Milton of Forteviot steading (NO01NW 108.00); its sluice has been demolished, but the lade survives intact, running along the W side of the track towards the steading.
The pond is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire, sheet cix, 1866) but had probably gone out of use by the turn of the century; it is noted as a 'Curling Pond' on the 2nd edition of the map (Perthshire, sheet cix.NW, 1901).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 22 November 1995.
Field Visit (2007)
NO 0489 1785
The former millpond 90 x 30m, excavated from a river terrace at NO 049 178, post-dates the railway
embankment c1845, being fed by an embanked channel from where the railway crosses the Water of May. The pond supplied an 80m lade alongside the lane leading to Milton, to where there are possible mill foundations at NO 0488 1790. Previously there was a lade along the edge of the valley, part of which survives, together with a training bank at NO 0494 1776, SSE of the pond. This supplied a mill 15 x 6m set end on against the dam
at NO 04891785, with the wheel pit on W side, re-used as an overflow channel for the later pond. The residue of the river terrace could be investigated for earlier occupation evidence.
Plan and description deposited with RCAHMS (Acq No 2007/218).
T Welsh 2007
