Tummel Forest - Historical site
Photograph is courtesy and copyright of Forestry Commission, Forest Research, Roslin, and provided with help from Glen Brearley. FR Photo number No B8051 taken by ?.
The only information ‘Clachan House No2 – Viewing east’
Can anyone identify the site?
Please Picture No 4916 which gives a full explanation of this site from a leaflet sent in by Joan Park.
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2 Comments
This is the site now known as the "Farmstead", on the western route of the forest path that starts from the Allean car park and initially follows the main Allean block access road, the site lies to the west of the forest road. NGR: 285338, 760216 (NN853602).
Comment left on 19 January 2018 at 20:55 by Bill Rayner
This site was excavated by Dr Margaret Stewart, a renowned local archaeologist from Perth. She insisted on all the naturally-seeded Rowan trees being removed - to the dismay of Hamish Park and other locals who felt that by upsetting the spirits of the rowans it would lead to bad luck.
Sure enough, not more than a week later, Dr Stewart was working on the site and disturbed an adder, which bit her on the back of her hand, leading to a visit to A&E.
Before returning to the site, Dr Stewart asked Hamish Park to plant rowans on the margins of the site to appease the offended spirits of the uprooted rowans. Comment left on 12 June 2022 at 23:07 by Douglas Clark
Sure enough, not more than a week later, Dr Stewart was working on the site and disturbed an adder, which bit her on the back of her hand, leading to a visit to A&E.
Before returning to the site, Dr Stewart asked Hamish Park to plant rowans on the margins of the site to appease the offended spirits of the uprooted rowans. Comment left on 12 June 2022 at 23:07 by Douglas Clark
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