Adit 4

Thank you to everyone asking after Bruce yesterday. He is very grateful. We don't think he's right yet but he seems to be very happy and unaware of the fuss.

I have been working very close to home today; on the mountain side on the opposite side of the Glen Spean valley to our village. For much of the time I could actually see our house. Funnily enough a recent blip - The Puggy Line - featured from here one very hot weekend. It is difficult to grasp the scale of the engineering project which went on here in the late twenties. This adit was used as one entry point to the tunnel for construction. It is on the side of a ravine and penetrates through about a thousand feet of rock before the tee junction on the tunnel is reached. We approached from above and descended on a steep slippy path carrying our gear and I simply can't visualise how hundreds of men took access to their work here. There would have been very heavy machinery, all sorts of tram rail mounted carts and of course thousands of cubic metres of tunnel excavated rock would have exited the mountain by this portal too. Nature has had the best part of a century to heal over most of the scars here and this is a very leafy shaded spot now. A few yards from here a burn decants over a polished vertical rock face which must be about a hundred feet high yet is totally concealed in the summer foliage.
There is a slightly eerie feel to this place and in fact if I ever write the novel that rattles about loosely in the back of my head several chapters may be set here. I will say now it would be gruesome, very gruesome.