Volunteers are helping to build a replica crannog on Loch Tay after an earlier model burned down two years ago.
More info : theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/18/iron-age-roundhouse-rises-from-the-ashes-on-shores-of-scottish-lake
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Those people must've been hardy souls... just IMAGINE the midges...
I've wondered before if crannogs were to get away from midges etc? Less of them over water and more likely a breeze which they don't like?
And plenty wind in Loch Tay................
Better a hillfort, then? I've literally been forced off the campsite at Loch Brittle for the midges... unbearable beside water. To be fair, Skye is probably the worst that I recall.
Hillforts got to be good, never thought about that. Beside water is bad for midges. Just wondering if 10 metres out into the loch the midges are much less?
Here's hoping it's not a bad year for them. It seems to get worse each year, even in the east now.
Perhaps there were fewer midges back then.
haha yeah - don't leave home without the headnet! Even having to use it in Wales now in summer. Never used to... bought a bit of net curtain so I can have the car window open