According to a local man..... this view of the Beauly Firth has only been available for a few years.
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In the words of that great philosopher George O’Dowd: “War is stupid; And people are stupid; So let us instead have the blue bell upon vitrified forts!” OK, perhaps not the last bit... but flowers upon these massive ramparts are indeed a nice touch.
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And to think that subsumed within such natural beauty is a massive, brutally utilitarian stone rampart?
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The hill fort from the car park. If you didn’t know it was there.....
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What appeared to have always been the entrance?
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You know, if it wasn’t for those wondrous OS people I wouldn’t have come up here since the massive walls are covered by their own protective layer of moss....
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Looking down the cairn to the lateral chamber..
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Looking across the lateral chamber to the main body of the cairn.
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Looking across the main chamber to the façade.
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Another, fallen, façade stone is foreground.
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Times have changed since Greywether came here.... I struggled to find the site, eventually managing to do so by heading for the local high point and taking a compass bearing from there.... forcing my way through the dense clad trees. But it was worth it. A magnificent chambered cairn with façade and lateral chamber.
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Didn’t think I would be... but found myself moved at what has been carved into stone here. Truly living rock.
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