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Belnahua

Slate Islands, Argyll

A tiny slate island quarried away and left empty.

Belnahua is one of the Slate Islands off Argyll. Its slate was so valuable that most of the island was quarried away, leaving deep flooded pits.

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When
Abandoned 1914
Where
56.2300, -5.7000
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Only reached by boat, on trips from Easdale and Ellenabeich.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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