A clearance cairn
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A clearance cairn
Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 15 Sep 2017
After looking at an Image in this area, I remembered that a clearance cairn had been reported from nearby (see https://canmore.org.uk/site/43300/kilpatrick-braes at Canmore; the report is from 1970). I did not have the position, but I had a quick look around. (A clearance cairn is, as the name suggests, a mound formed of stones that have been removed from an area, generally so that it can be put to use as a field.) The mound in the foreground is perhaps the cairn from that report; under the turf, it contains numerous small stones. It is about 70 metres from the reported position, but given that there was no GPS in 1970, that is not a large discrepancy. For what it is worth, the mound in my picture is (to within the nominal ±3m precision of the GPS receiver) centred on the OS grid line. I recorded its position as NS 46001 74046. For a view from the other side, see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.934678
Longitude
-4.466852