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Seen from the St Abbs lighthouse road. Bass Rock beyond.
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Arbor Low with its barrow, right, seen from the top of Gib Hill
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A perfect, still, blue sky evening, Gib Hill and Arbor Low all to ourselves... time to take in the place and the wonderful panorama, think of times past and passing. The profile of the underlying 6000yr old long barrow may be seen in the foreground. First visit in 32 years. Whoosh....
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May 4th 2019...Droughduil Mound covered in bluebells. As, it seems, is the rest of Galloway. Wonderful.
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A possible field system near the A171
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West side closeup, tweaked to bring out detail
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Top of barrow looking west. Would be a skyline feature
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East side. Like so many barrows on the Moors this one’ll look at its photogenic peak when the heather’s ablaze in August
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The north side. The concrete track leads to what was a precursor to Fylingdales early warning system.
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Why have this place on TMA? The seabirds, that’s why. The Scots still go after young gannets – guga – today in one location. They can be dried and stored. Plus there’s the puffins and pufflings in their cliff edge burrows. A foodsource for millennia doubtless, worth risking necks for at times...
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