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This earthwork rampart is straddled by two deep ditches. The ditches become deeper & steeper and the rampart narrower towards the front of the fort. Looking out over Scotland-England Mainline Railway, River Clyde and over to the M74.
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Looking down the interior of the hillfort towards the entrance. There are three gentle terraces which fan across the interior from the entrance (furthest away) to the top. Looking down onto Mainline Scotland – England Rail Line, then River Clyde then M74 Motorway.
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The defences on the south side comprise two deep ditches and bit of serious rampart between. These are still incredibly steep and well-defined.
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Goods train passes under Castle Hill Hillfort. 22 July 2021.
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Threip Moor Cairn basking in the Galloway sun. Clear felling all around, so this auld fella gets to breathe for a while before they new plantings grow back.
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Ossian’s Stone. A very, very large Cist Lid.
Image credit: Howburn Digger Unleashed 16 April 2021
Image credit: Howburn Digger Unleashed 16 April 2021
The area of forestry which surrounded the Giant’s Grave is now clear-felled.
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A James Valentine Postcard from 1875. Shows the flight of stone flag steps up to the wooden door fixed across the pulpit.
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Sleeve from Piero Umiliani’s 1968 Omicron lp “Preistoria”.
Mah Nà Mah Nà!
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Eastmore Bronze Age Barrow.
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It is July 2013. After a successful Galloway Hill Loch Trout Expedition my late brother and I stopped by Cairnholy. There was a person balanced on the top of the labia majora at Cairnholy 1. Strange.
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Looking good at Stronach Wood this Summer.
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The smashing Carn Ban.
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Lotsa fist-sized Quartz chuckie stones at Carn Ban.
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The magnificent heao that is Carn Ban. Even a panorama cannot quite take in the scale. Massive.
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No rain to fill this. Must have been a heavy dew....
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Cairnholy 2. October 2010.
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Cupmarks on the prominent longitudinal central rock forms at Cairnholy 1.
October 2014.
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Cupmarks on the prominent longitudinal central rock forms at Cairnholy 1.
October 2014.
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Cupmarks on the prominent longitudinal central rock forms at Cairnholy 1. October 2014.
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Cupmarks on the prominent longitudinal central rock forms at Cairnholy 1.
October 2014.
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Barharrow RA creepie-crawlie in black and white.
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An old friend drops by.
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Druid still makes an impressive profile.
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Druid’s shattered and fallen twin.
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The face leering outta the cliff above the cave.
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The Black Cave from the South. Note the seal in the left foreground. Peregrine in the sky. Can you see the face in the cliff above the cave?
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Sketch of Ossian’s Stone and the grave mound of the soldier killed in the construction of this section of Wade’s Military Road. Incidentally the Military Road can be seen making a very deliberate swing around the stone in the foreground of the sketch. This detour is also visible on the ground, on Canmore and on aerial views. It throws into question whether this boulder was ever moved to make way for the road.
Image credit: HD's Sma' Glen Roman and Ossianic Archive
Big chunky motifs on this one.
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Just add a little water and sunlight. 14 Oct 2018.
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Getting a bit mossed up this panel. Still awesome.
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I like the pecking in the upper ring on this motif, it gives it a lovely texture.
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Rich pasture on High Banks. October 14 2018.
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An ancient two-fingered salute from Agricola’s Campaign. This diagonal earthwork cuts across the bank barrow. A temporary Roman Camp was constructed around 80 AD with the bank barrow running right down the middle of it. The diagonal earthwork is the camp’s North East “Stracathro” Gate... and it was deliberately sited right across the bank barrow. This site is the only known example (in the world) of a Stracathro Gate surviving as an upstanding earthwork.
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Looking down Lamb Knowe along the line of the bank barrow from the top of the terminus.
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The “barrow-like” terminus of this massive monument high up on Lamb Knowe. Just poking up in among the trees behind the barrow (and on the other side of the White Esk) is the Samye-Ling Buddhist Temple.
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The massive bank barrow stretches from the green fields (centre left) and up beyond the forestry plantation (behind Raeburnfoot Farm) along the high ground for 650 metres. The straight lines in the green fields are the ramparts of the Raeburnfoot Roman Fort and its annexe.
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July 1966 finds Leac Garbh bracing itself for the deep penetration and rigorous onslaught of Forestry Commission Tractors and JCBs. The cairns, hut circles, chambered cairns and at least one dun lay securely clad under feet of moss, heather, grass and scrubby Birch. That which had preserved them for millenia was probably their undoing when the tractors and deep-ploughing kicked off.
The hillside was then shrouded in Spruce for 50 years and the partially destroyed cairns, hut-circles and dun went un-noticed for decades until local historians and walkers on the forest paths spotted the features.
The eagle-eyed might here on TMA might spot some of the cairns (un-noticed in 1966) and a dun (un-noticed) which can be just made out as earthwork features on the slopes of Leac Garbh. Hindsight is pimps eh?
Note the campers in the picnic area at the mouth of the North Sannox Burn. Still as popular today as it’s always been...
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The cists are on the triangular pinnacle in the centre of the picture (above the green flat-topped hill). Behind and to the left lies a little piece of Eilean nan Gamhna, further out to the right is the 17:15 Oban-Lismore Ferry, two of the little Creags, then the low lying island of Lismore and a cloudy Ardnamurchan Peninsula behind that. Very cool resting place.
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Creagdhu hillfort with Paddy’s Milestane and disinterested humans for scale purposes.
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Two defensive ramparts and ditches on the South end of the hillfort.
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Substantial cairn a little North East of Allt Carn Bhain not noted on any map or Canmore.
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