Blackwater Dam, Navvies' Graveyard
Alternative Names Allt An Eoin Bhinn; Blackwater Reservoir, Dam, Construction Graveyard; Kinlochleven Aluminium Works
Site type BURIAL GROUND
Canmore ID 79902
Site Number NN26SW 4
NGR NN 24213 60253
Council HIGHLAND
Parish LISMORE AND APPIN (LOCHABER)
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District LOCHABER
Former County ARGYLL
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Archaeological Notes
NN26SW 4 24213 60253
Grave Yard [NAT] (applied to a circular area. c. 20m diameter, some 170m SSW of where Allt an Eoin Bhinn joins the River Leven).
OS 6-inch map, 1968.
Location formerly entered as NN 2427 6025.
For (associated) Blackwater Reservoir (NN 30500 60200) and dam (NN 24790 60371), see NN36SW 2 and NN26SW 3.00 respectively.
This graveyard contains the concrete grave-markers of men killed while working on the dam [NN26SW 3.00] construction in 1908.
Information RCAHMS (MMD), 18 June 1997.
Grave Yard [NAT] (applied to open rectangle at NN 24213 60253)
OS (GIS) AIB, June 2006.

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