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South Yarrows Broch Broch |
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South Yarrows N Chambered Tomb |
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2 sites Warehouse S Chambered Tomb |
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Leaflets available from Tourist Information offices. Parking at grid reference. Trail includes one broch, the two South Yarrows chambered tombs and the three Warehouse tombs plus other sites. It could be extended to include Kenny's Cairn and Garrywhin. |
Posted by greywether3rd December 2003ce Edited 3rd December 2003ce |
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South Yarrows N (Chambered Tomb) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
 
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Posted by thelonious5th October 2011ce |
South Yarrows S (Chambered Tomb) — Images |
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Posted by thelonious 5th October 2011ce |
Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN3rd October 2011ce |
South Yarrows Broch — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN 8th August 2010ce |
Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) — Images |
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Posted by GLADMAN 8th August 2010ce |
South Yarrows S (Chambered Tomb) — Images |
 
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Posted by GLADMAN 18th July 2010ce |
South Yarrows Broch — Fieldnotes |
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At first sight - from a distance - this looks a bit of a mess..... but persevere since the siting is magnificent, with trout (I think) jumping all over the place, and the construction techniques of your ancient broch builder well seen. Boy, these people were dudes when it came to building dry stone walls! Clearly the level of the loch has risen over the millennia - unless the inhabitants were like Kevin Costner in Waterworld - since the broch interior now resembles a pond... ditto a perfectly formed wall chamber with mural stairway exposed So, not as good as Ousdale, perhaps, but - particularly taken as part of the Yarrows complex - this broch had my poor old brain in overload mode. Suggest it's a good idea to do the Yarrows walk in 'reverse', so to speak. Not to be intentionally contrary you understand, but so you can relax here at the end of a long afternoon.... |
Posted by GLADMAN 6th June 2009ce |
Warehouse S (Chambered Tomb) — Fieldnotes |
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I'm normally wary about 'official' trails and walks - best left to the tourists, eh? - but this Loch of Yarrows walk is a gem... as long as you make sure you've got yer boots and waterproofs (this is Scotland, after all). White posts guide the way - so no need for compass - past numerous chambered cairns etc and I reckon this is arguably the pick of the bunch. All the more infuriating, therefore to find old beer cans within the passage on my visit prompting me to crawl down and retrieve the damn things. What kind of muppet takes the trouble to come to this sort of place and then does this? Beggars belief. Suffice to say they're there no longer and the roof didn't fall in on my head either - it's probably the tightest fit I've encountered - apart from The Lion Sleeps Tonight (sorry, that's pretty bad). Oh.... The views are pretty good, too. Great mini hillwalk, great cairns - what more could could you ask for? Are we talking a Scottish Carrowkeel here? Not quite, but it's pretty close. And no, I didn't take a picture of the farmer. |
Posted by GLADMAN 6th June 2009ce |
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