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At the middle of the cairn looking at the south west section.
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A little bit of erosion shows some building materials.
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From on top of the rock between the Green Castle and Bow Fiddle.
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The waves create their own Christmas Day Special.
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From the small bay to the west of the rock.
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A day of horrendous conditions, heavy rain and flooding, this looking south.
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Leaving Aviemore and heading west on the A9, just before it becomes a dual carriageway, there is a road to the right which leads to Ballinluig Farm. I searched for someone to ask permission to park, found nobody but left ticket on the dash saying what I was up to.
Head south from the farm, open the gate, keep going, cross the Coachan Ruadh, luckily for me at normal levels and to you’ll come to a fenced pheasant section. There is a gate on the south.
The grass covered cairn sits on top of the small hill and has a fair amount of water tanks, corrugated iron etc surrounding it. However, it seems to have maintained its shape being 8m wide and going by my tape measure nearly 1m high. There is rock content in the middle of the cairn.
If it hadn’t been for the surroundings this would be a very beautiful site.
Visited 23/10/2021.
Amazing how a different angle manages to hide the various surrounding junk.
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The top of the cairn, surrounded in junk. Underfoot there is cairn material.
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The north side of the cairn, situated in place for pheasants.
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There are plenty of stones underneath the jabby stuff, this the cairns north edge. NH9636115149
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The cairns east side looking south towards Craiggowrie NH9616115149
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Looking west over towards Pityoulish and Boat Of Garten NH9616115149
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Looking north east, decent footprint, once again the centre houked NH9636115149
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As well as the biggest cairn at Delbog there are four smaller cairns that appear to be of the burial type. These are situated east of the main cairn. Starting with the furthest east.
NH9442315121 The furthest east cairn has a fairly large footprint of about 5m, and is about 1m in height. It has been disturbed and its centre dug out, revealing a rectangular shape in the middle. Several earthfast stones, possibly kerbs remain.
NH9640615158 Moving slightly west and downhill, another cairn can be found. Another decent sized cairn with what looks like remains of a cist in the centre. Almost 5m wide and at its tallest 1m.
NH9639715136 The third cairn is once again to the west and downhill. Like the previous cairn, the centre of the monument has been disturbed revealing the remnants of something rectangular. Nearer 6m wide and almost 1m tall, possible kerbs underneath the whins.
NH9636115149 Perhaps the largest of the four, it appears to be well over 6m wide and in bits over 1m tall. The normal disturbance has happened to the centre revealing a probable cist.
At the third time of asking, these cairns have been eventually photographed. A faulty camera card meaning a revisit to here, Revack and Coire Molach. On my return from the second visit I somehow deleted the photos of the smaller cairns. However, the third visit, on the by now well trod path, led to success.
However it should be noted that parking is no longer allowed at the place I first parked, just turning. Just drive a 100meters down from where the OS says the minor road end, there is space on a track that hasn’t been used for years,, on the north side.
Visited 23/10/2021.
