Near Auchencrieve
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Near Auchencrieve
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 18 Jun 2014
The heap of boulders in the field wall gives some idea of what the farmer has had to contend with. These will be erratics dropped by melting glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. The crop looks like barley. In the distance is Fourman Hill.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.51691
Longitude
-2.789747