Category: Southern Uplands
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Peat Law
Another photo from the last few days in the Scottish Borders. At 464m asl., the hill on the right is known as ‘Three Brethren‘ after the three 16th-century cairns on its summit. It stands on an old drove road once used by cattle but now popular with walkers and mountain bikers. The cairns were each…
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Hill of Fire
Tinto, perhaps the most prominent hill in the Clyde valley. At 707m above sea level it is not particularly high but still a very popular climb. The name means the hill of fire, a reference to the druidic practice of lighting fires on the summit to their sun god. A Bronze Age burial cairn, the…