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It’s a lovely area. I didn’t appreciate it enough at the time as a teenager but could easily live there now. Way too expensive to move there now though. Worth seeing the Hilton of Cadboll and Nigg Pictish slabs while you are there too plus excellent museum at Portmahomack.

Amazing drawing. We used to live a mile down the road from it in the late 70s/early 80s. I went back last year for a look and was pleased to find it is protected from the weather in a glass room now.

Superb detail 👍

Thanks Barney, nice to know this little legacy lives on 🙂

I think my late wife may have been the Aber Falls nature reserve warden at that time (1986). Nice thread and good to see the oak woodland is thriving.

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It’s a good one although not quite what it seems at first. Watch out for the SPQR inscribed stone in a clearance cairn by the footpath up to Cadair Bronwen too. I think those Victorians were having a laugh 🙂

which are now filled with small stones added by visitors over the last 30 years. The gaps probably indicate robbed stones. A few metres downslope to the south is a platform cairn with quartz stones deliberately placed in its surface. Photos, photogrammetry & models all mine 2013 to 2018

You can find out more by downloading the detailed surveys report here archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/brow... and by visiting the Early Mines Research Group page here earlyminesresearchgroup.co.uk/craig%20y%20...

Yes there will be a publicly available report sometime within the next 6 months.

We are still looking for his last battlefield in Wales 🙂, if that’s where it happened. Conn Iggulden’s recent Tyrant novel has him in Italy as one of supposedly 19,000 prisoners forced to fight to the death in a huge mock sea battle on the Fucine Lake in 52 CE. He survives & wins his freedom🙂

Looking forward to it. Should be a good update to Graham Webster’s Rome against Caratacus book which was very Roman military focussed.

The layouts were common across Europe and the UK in the 17th & 18th century but we have more paintings of them in Europe so they are a good visual source for what UK timber mill structures may have looked like.

Same here. Garden is a desert. I think I’ll just plant cacti and succulents next year 🙂

The garden would love that here. I’m just basically watering things enough to keep them alive at the moment and hope they will grow a bit when we get more rain.

You might get a bit more in the hills. Hopefully it will show up all those medieval features 🙂

Assume it’s a corn mill but it may have processed something else. The central boarding in front of the wheel pit looks like the tailrace and the lateral boarding must have been for maintenance access as well as spillways

Is it kind of a shorthand - ‘No damage yet but preparing for it’ ?

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I was trying to read the flag signals 🙂 IB YPP ?