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Archaeologically, the site is complicated: close to the bothy there are stones in the ground that appear to have formed part of some earlier construction, perhaps the remains of the summer shieling-huts. Dixon and Green considered that they found "the remains of a hut with stone-footings, which is
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The bothy on the opposite side of the Dee to the
Tailors' Stone is known as the Corrour Bothy, receiving its name from the corrie behind it. In the lifetime of the Duke of Fife, a deer-stalker or deer-watcher lived in the bothy from July to October. When I first knew the Cairngorms an old watcher
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Visitors' books started being kept in 1928 and many are preserved, being archived mostly by the
Rucksack Club at the Dundee University Archives. Ralph Storer has published extensive extracts from the books, making the observation that, over the years, their literary merit has lagged behind the
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The original bothy was built in 1877 to house a deer watcher during the summer, and it housed several including
Charles Robertson, John Macintosh, and Frank Scott before the estate stopped using the bothy in the 1920s. In 1948 Gordon gave some detail about its occupation by deer watchers:
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