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Latitude: 57.3152 / 57°18'54"N
Longitude: -4.8248 / 4°49'29"W
OS Eastings: 229973
OS Northings: 828488
OS Grid: NH299284
Mapcode National: GBR G9GD.2QL
Mapcode Global: WH2DP.VDNG
Entry Name: Badger Fall, still 150m SSE of, Glen Affric
Scheduled Date: 6 December 2016
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM13577
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Industrial: weir/dam/sluice
Location: Kilmorack
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Aird and Loch Ness
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
The monument is the remains of an illicit whisky still, probably dating to the 18th or early 19th centuries. It survives as a small enclosure of stone walls and banks, with an attached lade. The monument is located within woodland, in a secluded gully on the south east side of a small burn feeding into the River Affric, at around 140m above sea level.
The still structure measures around 7m in length with rubble walls at both ends up to 1.5m high and around 0.6m thick. The still was built underneath an overhanging rock outcrop next to the burn, providing the necessary concealment for illegal distilling. A low stony bank opposite the rock outcrop encloses a stone-lined channel or lade, which supplied water to the still.
The scheduled area is rectangular on plan to include the remains described above and an area around them within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it has an inherent potential to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the past, in particular the development of the whisky industry within Scotland. The monument is a relatively well-preserved example of a previously common site for which very little evidence has survived to the present day. The loss of the monument would significantly diminish our ability to appreciate and understand small-scale distilling in the Highlands around the end of the 18th century, and its significance both to society at the time and the modern whisky industry.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland: http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore.html CANMORE ID 303128
Heawood, R., 2009 'Excavations at Lochrin Distillery, Edinburgh' Industrial Archaeology Review, 31:1, 34-53.
Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/303128/
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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