Plate G7.no13: Roofless Cottage – West Highland Way – Kinlochleven (Scotland)

Ruined, abandoned cottages are a fairly common sight in the Scottish landscape. I’d like to be able to say it was by a process of natural redundancy – but this is often not the case. There’s a mean history in Scotland, of people being put off their land and thrown out of their homes by usurpers whose remit is driven by anything but kindness.
Nevertheless, these ruins still provoke in me wonderings as to the lives lived therein, to images of what I hope were happy times. Certainly, these buildings would have protected from the more immediate threat: of climate. Undeniably so – for the walls still stand, even today……testament to the original intentions: that this was a place once worthy of settlement…