And Through The Whins And By The Cairn...

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And Through The Whins And By The Cairn...

Image: © Mary and Angus Hogg Taken: 18 Mar 2009

This modern cairn, located in Alloway's Cairn Crescent, was re-erected on the original site to perpetuate the eventful journey of Tam O' Shanter to Alloway Kirk. (Source: Information plaque on the cairn). When the prehistoric cairn was removed during the housing development of the early 1960s, a Bronze Age burial cist was found. (Source: "Ayr Stories", by Dane Love). Burns's famous poem tells that Tam came "Through the whins, and by the cairn, whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn." Creepy stuff!

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Image Location

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55.432544
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-4.641564