Holm is a small residential area in the south of the city of Inverness, Scotland. Holm is middle English and Norse, meaning "low lying land next to water". The area lies East of the River Ness.
The most prominent structure in the vicinity is the Holm Mills. The mill is known for its contribution to the Caledonian Canal, by weaving a cloth to prevent the embankments from leaking. Until recently, tartan was still being woven in the original building. The premises are now a shop and visitor centre.[1]
A building occupied by Dick Precast Concrete is situated slightly South of Holm Mills. Additionally a large electrical substation is sited on Dores Road and this facility serves most of Inverness.
On Dores Road there is a small convenience shop which includes Royal Mail Post Office facilities. As is the case in the rest of the City, a bus service is provided by Stagecoach. Buses to & from the City centre run approximately every 30 minutes Monday to Saturday and hourly on Sundays. Dores Road at Holm will soon be the site of the City's 4th Tesco store along with associated facilities. Building work began on Monday the 7th of March 2011. The company forecasts a construction period of 4 months, with the new superstore opening in July. As well as the main shop the site will include a filling station & car wash, GP surgery, community centre, 4 smaller retail units and a public square. There will be over 250 car parking spaces and the development is to be landscaped to include trees and green spaces, with a view to maintaining the current appearance of the area.
Headland Archaeology[2] excavated two Early Bronze Age short cists and several outlying undated features at Holm Mains located to the south-west of Inverness. The larger of these cists contained a male individual lying on his left side placed in a crouched position. Accompanying this burial were two barbed and tanged arrowheads, ten other lithics tools and the fragments of a finely decorated beaker pot. The other investigated cist was, by contrast, in a much poorer state of preservation. It also contained an adult male. The burial was accompanied only with a single beaker pot. The other features, comprising pits and ditches, located near the cists produced no artefacts to aid with dating. The cists uncovered at Holm Mains[3] are part of a group centred in the Culduthel area near the site of the Inverness Royal Academy. The absence of any modern excavations in this area hampered the understanding of this prehistoric landscape. The present work provides a secure context through which to view the older discoveries. The picture which is emerging from the disparate pieces is of a remarkably rich prehistoric landscape in the Culduthel area.
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