Tag: hill fort
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Arthur’s Seat
I think half of Edinburgh must have been up Arthur’s Seat today, a hill described by Robert Louis Stevenson as âa hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design.â The poor old King of Britain asleep in the depths of the extinct 250-metre high volcano must have been turning in his glass…
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The Big Mountain and the Toad of Lorn
A short trot up Beinn Mhòr, the ‘big mountain’. Not the Beinn Mhòr of Mull (better known by its anglicised name of Ben More), at 965m the only Munro requiring a ferry trip. Nor the two other Munros with the same name in Perthshire and Assynt. Nor even the 741m high Beinn Mhòr on Cowal…
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Dunadd
More than 1,300 years ago, this part of Argyll was known as DĂ l Riata and was peopled by Gaels, known as the Scotti. The royal centre of DĂ l Riata was a fortress built on top of a rocky hill beside the River Add: Dunadd, or DĂšn Ad in Gaelic. It is said that the Gaels…
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Hillend Iron Age Hill Fort
Caerketton Hill is on the north-eastern end of the Pentland Hills outside of Edinburgh. With its dry ski slope, it dominates the view from the Edinburgh bypass. About halfway up is a distinctive knoll that is the site of an Iron Age hill fort. It takes its name from the small hamlet at the foot…