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Nice cairn Drew. I remember liking this one. Location is good.
I was a little west on Kerloch today. Have you ever been? The trigpiont is on a decent grassed over cairn, big footprint. Looks old to me but not on any maps or Canmore.
Fine looking setting, shame about the pylon.
Never been to Kerloch T but looked at some photos on-line. Looks like a cairn to me but will go look. I've sent Canmore some pics of the top of Clashmach (much higher than the ring cairn) as that looks prehistoric to me. One of friends also mentioned the top of Culblean. Lots of hills to climb excl :-) :-)
A very beautiful cairn SC, turbines are a pest but better than other things I suppose.
Don't mind the turbines, just the pylon :)
Clashmach - Been a while, is that next to the trig?
Culblean - I can't think of much up there. Be good to know if there is. Big flatish top. Worth a visit just for the views.
Kerloch - Link to a couple of pics. It's bigger than it looks. Quite a few cairns on hills around here as you know, Cairn-Mon-Earn, Cairn O' Mount etc, so wouldn't be too surprising if this was old as well. I love an upland cairn :-)
500px.com/photo/192154259/kerloch-by-spaceways
500px.com/photo/192154257/kerlock-by-spaceways
Clashmach next to the trig. Culblean next to the trig also. I love upland cairns as well :-) so Kerloch will be visited (that's a definite cairn, some kerbs going by these pics). Going to have a look at Blarourie for this ring cairn. Canmore informed about Pittenderich btw.
I remember the cairn now on Culblean. Not very big. Here's a photo if you hadn't seen one (couldn't find one without a person on it but I've blurred my ugly mug so not to offend anyone).
500px.com/photo/192315533/culblean-by-spaceways
I had a quick look for Blarourie ring cairn but with no joy a few years back. Hope you have better luck. I reckon you have a better nose for finding these things :-)
If you get time whilst there, I'd love your opinion on the circular enclosures just north of where the ring cairn is said to be.
online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?tab=main&refno=NO79SW0091
themodernantiquarian.com/site/14799/blarourie.html
I'm thinking sheep enclosures but they are on a slope and don't feel right. Could be anything. There are 4 of them. Link to aerial picture from google below. You can just make out the circles. I've drawn them on the bottom one.
500px.com/photo/192301155/enclosurev-by-spaceways
Interesting to see what Canmore say about Pittenderich. Do they normally just add it?
They'll go look at Pittenderich I'm told and a couple of other things, cup marked rocks etc,.
I'll go look at the other sites on Blarourie as well :-)
Beginning to think there is more than 1 cairn on Culblean :-)
Kerloch is a definite old cairn I'd say (pics en route to the Canmore people and a description) and the Blarourie ring cairn exists. As for the enclosures, there are a few hut circles on the go and they are right in middle of cairns/SCs etc, and they might have been holding pens perhaps fenced for animals. There are plenty dry stane dyke enclosures on slopes made by shepherds who obviously took the slope into consideration. I think the 2 smaller enclosures are ok, the bigger two, not so sure but I wouldn't be surprised if they were prehistoric.
That's just great Drew, you found the ring cairn. Looks good from the photos.
Thanks for your thoughts on the enclosures. It's an interesting area.
Not a bad cairn on top of Kerloch is it? Track up is a bit of a slog though.
Its an absolute belter, just did a DES for it just now.
I had to google a 'DES' - I've learnt something today :-)