Monument record MHG36876 - Allt Thomais

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NH51SW 3.01 c.509 129

NH 521 117 A field survey of a proposed hydro-electric scheme at Garrogie, near Fort Augustus, was undertaken. Garrogie, or Garragie, Lodge (NMRS NH 51 SW 3) is located in the glen through which the River Fechlin flows NW from Loch Killin to its confluence with the River Foyers. The development site is an area of open hillside, lightly wooded marshy moorland, on the N side of the River Fechlin. A walkover survey of the pipeline route and access tracks (total length c 3.5km) was carried out in August 2000. Few significant archaeological features were encountered.
In the vicinity of the Allt Thomais stream several drystone features were recorded, including a wall that stood on a ridge to the N of the Fechlin. This wall ran from S to N for around 9.5m, before turning roughly SE-NW. It continued in the latter direction for a further 4.5m. It may have functioned as a boundary wall, or have been part of a habitation, possibly a shieling, associated with the former settlement at Allt Thomais. To the E of the wall lay a spread of sub-rounded cobbles, which may have been debris from such a structure, perhaps produced by the effects of land erosion. Some 21m to the N of the wall stood a sub-circular drystone structure with a diameter of 2.5m and a height of 1.2m. A similar structure stood 1.9m to the N. Both of these may have functioned as hides for shooting.
Sponsor: Caledonian Power plc
M Roy 2000