In order to get to the stones I had to get past this horny cow. She was friendly!
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The two stones form an alignment with Ailsa Craig just a few degrees off North-South.
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The gnarled old timer gazes down on some young shags sunning themselves on the rocks.
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It felt more like a grave than a stone circle.
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The second (and smaller) four poster on the hillside beyond the Teanga Burican.
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The jaggy toothed three-quarter four-poster.
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The ancient sentinel of the wheelie bins stands guard.
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Yet another capstone and the enigmatic standing stone.
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Now a bit of an obstruction for the beach car park.
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The mighty cave entrance at the foot of the cliffs at Bennan Head.
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Looking down into the Black Cave through the collapsed roof entrance halfway up the cliff.
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The fallen stone in the four poster is marked by the Explorer map for Arran. Looking North-East up the hill.
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Looking down past this wee four poster over the Teanga Burican to Bennecarrigan and the coast at Sliddery.
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Looking across the Kilbrannan Sound to Kintyre.
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Machriewater stone. Nine and three quarter year old added for scale.
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130 horses and riders crossing the outer ramparts of the lower fort on Bizzyberry Hill. Biggar Riding of the Marches 12 June 2011
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130 horses and riders crossing the outer ramparts of the northernmost fort on Bizzyberry Hill. The fort platform is centred on the tree in the middle of the picture. Biggar Riding of the Marches 12 June 2011.
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A wrecked cairn looks down on Devonshaw Hillfort.
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Devonshaw Hillfort and beyond, looking across the Clyde and into the West and the hills of Ayrshire.
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The profile of Tinto Hill with its mighty summit cairn. The sharp eyed might be able to make out the winding path snaking up Tinto’s broad shoulder (left of centre). Look just to the left of the path and the even sharper eyed might be able to make out the massive C*ck and B*lls burned into the heather.
A stonker!
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The King’s Caves on their headland far beyond the sheer cliffs at Drumadoon Fort. Photograph taken in May 1943.
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The roadside giant photographed back in May 1943. The wee fence has been replaced with a massive Beech hedge.
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This beautiful rock art illustration is available for £11 (special offer at the Co-op for this this week only). Well worth the money. The £11 worth of beautiful art comes with a free 70cl bottle of irish whiskey attached. Rock Art – it’s the gift that just keeps giving.
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The main cave group looking from South to North. Mrs HD perched on rock included for scale purposes.
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Looking from North to South across the main cave group. Mrs HD perched on rock added for scale.
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View of the Eildon Hills from Matt Seattle’s 2001 CD “Border Seasons”.
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The round house stone footings are on the left. To the right you can see the curving souterrain with its central floor drain. When the monument was brushed and spivved up for the public, the floor area was covered in a thick layer of gravel which hides this interesting drain feature. The original occupants were storing stuff in there which they didnt want to get wet.
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The gentlemen of the Maryhill Temperance Society on an outing to the Auld Wives Lifts in 1888. From a Glasgow Temperance League postcard.
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The much graffittied capstone from the northernmost cairn.
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The Giant’s Graves pre-Forestry Commission plantation back in 1890.
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The last known occupants of the Black Cave, a traveller family, back in 1890. They are outside the western entrance.
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The King’s Cross Point Standing Stone surrounded by its cairn back in 1894. Holy Isle in the background. The building is now a Buddhist retreat.
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From the bottom of the ditch to the top of the inner rampart is more than four metres in places.
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Standing on the outer rampart looking westwards to Crosscryne and the top of Knowehead Hill.
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The ramparts are particularly impressive. Not much plough damage at the top of this very steep hill.
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The view from Mitchelhill Rings hillfort across the Kilbucho Valley to Knowe Kniffling hillfort.
7 November 2010.
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The might of a snow-capped Tinto Hill on the far left with its tiny scaled down version – the wee dimple of Quothquan Law – on the far right. On the ridge behind Quothquan Law (to the right of the straw coloured field) are the massive Neolithic enclosures at Blackhouse Burn.
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A balloon drifts past Quothquan Law hillfort on 25th August 2010.
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Mitchelhill Rings hillfort looking East down the valley towards Kilbucho and Broughton.
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