Exploring Scotland's Underwater Ruins

Exploring Scotland's Underwater Ruins

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Many of the lochs we see while travelling through the Scottish Highlands are man made, created as part of vast hydro electric schemes in the 1950s and 60s. As the water level drops in many of these reservoirs over the summer, they reveal facinating secrets...

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Archelogy in the Upper Glendevon Reservoir:
https://www.tafac.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/V12p61-69_CowleyStrachan.pdf

Photo of the Corrielair Lodge pior to flooding:
https://twitter.com/HighlandHistory/status/1244691612082548736

Wonderful article on the drowning on Capel Celyn:
https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/the-drowning-of-capel-celyn-109496dc611e

00:00 - Introduction & History of Scottish Hydroelectricity
02:00 - The Old Sunken Roads & Bridges of Loch Claunie
04:24 - The Submerged 'Laundry House' of Loch Claunie
06:34 - The Empty Glendevon reservoirs
07:42 - The Sunken Farmhouse
09:26 - Exploring the Farmhouse
18:45 - Outro & Waffling on a bit

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