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Lemmington Wood on BRAC Updated
Lamp Hill on BRAC Updated
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Glebe Stone on Canmore
Warrior’s Rest on Canmore.
Having just found this entry on 29.03.21 I was investigating the Canmore page. Martin’s cup marks were noted in 2005 in an update. There are many other details available including 8 bronze age burials found nearby. Go to Links for Canmore ID 53054.
The crack in the N face of Wook’s Quoit may eventually split the stone in half.
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Pock Marked S Side of Wook’s Quoit.
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Windy Edge Stone Circle/Standing Stone
Visited 26.05.12
I have forgotten the details of my route to Windy Edge however I do have the echo of it being a long slog over rough terrain.
According to Canmore ID 67908 (go to Links) the stone “belonged to a stone circle with a diameter of about 135 ft, six stones of which remained at the end of the 18th century.”
The area is now forested and only two stones remain, a c. 4.5 foot stone leaning at 45 degrees and a prone c. 6 feet stone which lies c. 45 yards E of the leaning stone according to Canmore ID 67908.
On my visit I was not yet a devotee of Canmore (or RCAHMS) so I didn’t look for the second prone stone in the vicinity.
The robbed out gap in Windy Edge Long Cairn according to Canmore ID 67899.
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Windy Edge Long Cairn viewed along WNW-ESE Axis.
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Windy Edge Long Cairn on Canmore.
Visited 26.05.12
Pebblesfromheaven impression of a long long cairn turns out to be true!
According to survey work carried out in 1993 by RCAHMS (see details in Canmore ID 67899 in Links) the two separate cairns at Windy Edge should be regarded as one long cairn measuring c. 75m on a WNW-ESE axis. They found an underlying stone layer in the gap between the cairns by probing the ground. The missing centre of the long cairn may be explained by traces of peat cutting in this area.
Whitefield Loch Crannog Causeway delineated by reeds.
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Remains of White Cairn, Glenterrow viewed from NE.
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Remains of White Cairn, Glenterrow viewed from NW.
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Remains of White Cairn, Glenterrow viewed from SE.
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White Cairn, Glenterrow (Destroyed) on Canmore.
Visited 01.11.20
Glenterrow White Cairn was once a landmark on the Castle Kennedy to New Luce road. However, according to Canmore ID 61690 (go to Links), “it was demolished about 1816.” There is a raised platform of rough uneven ground measuring c. 25 yards in diameter and 1 foot in height within 10 yards N of the roadside. The grassy circle is in a verdant strip of pasture with contrasting brown moorland to the NE.
The sad remnants of White Cairn, Gelston are adjacent to a dry stane dyke, probably constructed from the cairn itself.
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The broad face of the massive capstone of West Lanyon Quoit.
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Approaching West Cairngaan recumbent Standing Stone from S.
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West Cairngaan recumbent Standing Stone viewed from S.
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West Cairngaan recumbent Standing Stone viewed from E.
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West Cairngaan on Canmore
Visited 05.11.11
West Cairngaan Stone is a massive undressed stone lying prone c. 200 yards N of the West Tarbet coast near the Mull of Galloway. It’s a granite pillar, measuring c. 5.5 feet long by 2 feet square at its base. It lies adjacent to a pile of large field clearance stones.
Canmore 61059 (go to Links) reported that the stone was embedded in the ground at 30 degrees however it now lies flat on the field. There was also the suggestion of c. 20 similar stones in a nearby modern wall in 1953 but no evidence of this exists at time of visit. West Cairngaan is included in a RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-62).
The Wells of the Rees are three springs, long since dried up, located within the ruins of Killgallioch Church. It is signposted off the New Luce to Bargrennan stage of the Southern Upland Way. If you park in the layby short of Balmurrie farm it is at least a 5 mile walk to the Well of the Rees. Of course there are Cairn na Gath, the Beehive Bothy and Laggangarn Stones to visit in between, so at 2.5 miles walked per site visited it is good value.