Large image (1130x443 - 64k)The cairn is to the left of the image, with the dismantled railway running along the right of the image. Told you it was a pretty setting!
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Large image (613x237 - 32k)View from the south-east. The dark area running across the cairn just to this side of the bronze-age telegraph pole(!) is a passage within the cairn.
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Large image (818x324 - 62k)The same passage can be seen running from the bottom-centre of the picture up towards the right. By the tree is a large stone; the dark line running from the stone to the left is the cist/chamber in the third picture.
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| Of course, there are very many ancient sites which are not under state care and which are not often visited. However, many of these are worth a vist. For example, there is a chambered cairn to
the east of Loch Earn, just off the A85 that is in poor repair but is:
- easy to get to (a short walk along a dismantled railway track);
- in very pretty surroundings (if you happen to like mountains and forests and lochs and rivers);
- clearly structured with at least three obvious cists and chambers.
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