Megget Water and Megget Reservoir - geograph

Megget Water is a river in the parish of

Yarrow ''Achillea millefolium'', commonly known as yarrow () or common yarrow, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Growing to tall, it is characterized by small whitish flowers, a tall stem of fernlike leaves, and a pungent odor. The plan ...

Selkirkshire Selkirkshire or the County of Selkirk is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county of Scotland. It borders Peeblesshire to the west, Midlothian to the north, Roxburghshire to the east, and Dumfriesshire to the south. It de ...

in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

area of

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

. The Water rises at

Broad Law Broad Law is a hill in the Manor Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The second-highest point in the Southern Uplands and the highest point in the Scottish Borders, it has an elevation of 840 metres, a prominence of 653 me ...

(2,760 ft), passes through

Megget Reservoir Megget Reservoir is an impounding reservoir in the Megget valley in Ettrick Forest, in the Scottish Borders. The reservoir is held back by the largest earth dam in Scotland. The reservoir collects water from the Tweedsmuir Hills, which is then ...

and empties into

St Mary's Loch St Mary's Loch is the largest natural loch in the Scottish Borders, and is situated on the south side of the A708 road between Selkirk and Moffat, about south of Edinburgh. Description It is long and wide, and was created by glacial acti ...

. Places in the vicinity include Cappercleuch,

Craigierig Craigierig is a village on the Megget Reservoir, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Selkirkshire. Places nearby include the Glengaber Burn, Henderland, St Mary's Loch, the Tibbie Shiels Inn, and Yarrow Water. See also *Li ...

, Cramalt Tower, the Glengaber Burn, Meggethead Farm. The Megget area, formerly a parish united with

Lyne, Scottish Borders Lyne () is a small village and civil parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, west of the market town of Peebles; it lies off the A72, in the old county of Peeblesshire and has an area of about . The Lyne Water flows through the villag ...

, is of geological and archaeological interest, through stone artifacts at Henderland in the lower Megget valley (now in Wilton Lodge Museum,

Hawick Hawick ( ; ; ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council areas of Scotland, council area and counties of Scotland, historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east o ...

), and discoveries of gold. A proclamation concerning gold mining in Scotland was made at Henderland in July 1576. Gold was property of the crown and was to be sold to the

royal mint The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins. It is currently located in Llantrisant, Wales, where it moved in 1968. Operating under the legal name The Royal Mint Limited, it is a limited company that is wholly ow ...

.John Hill Burton, ''Register of the Privy Council of Scotland'', vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1878), pp. 554–555.

References

* NMS (1992d), 'Megget Water (Yarrow parish):cup-marked stone', ''Discovery Excav Scot'', page 7 * Scottish Journal of Geology (The Geological Society): R.J.Chapman, R.C.Leake, J.D,Floyd: ''Regional variation in gold mineralization in the vicinity of the Glengaber Burn, Scottish Borders'' * ''Proc Soc Antiq Scot, III, 1981, 401-429'', Cramalt Tower:historical survey and excavations 1977–9, Alastair M T Maxwell-Irving

External links

RCAHMS record of Henderland, Megget WaterCANMORE/RCAHMS record of Boar Cleuch Flow, Megget WaterCANMORE/RCAHMS record of Glengaber Burn, Gold WorkingsCramalt tower:historical survey and excavations 1977-9Vision of Britain, Gazetteer entries for Peebles Shire
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