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.
1/9 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!
2/9 View from the east edge of the cairn.
3/9 The large stone by the tree is at the left end of a small chamber/cist.
4/9 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.
5/9 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.
6/9 View of the cist/chamber by the tree (which is at the top-right of the picture).
7/9 A "small" cist in the cairn.
8/9 The other cist/passage that is to the south-east side of the cairn.
9/9 The start of the walk, about 1 mile from the cairn.
Nearby Sites
14km Clach na Tiompan Chambered Cairn; Standing Stone; Possible Stone Circle
14km River Almond Stone Circle; Cairn
15km Ferntower Stone Circle Stone Circle; Cup Mark
15km Monzie Cairn Circle
17km Ardoch Roman Fort Roman Fort
18km Acharn Standing Stone Standing Stone
18km Mid Lix Cup Marks
19km Buchanty Hill Cup Marks
19km Crofthead Farm Standing Stones
20km Fowlis Wester Pictish Stones Pictish Stones
20km Fowlis Wester Stone Circles Stone Circles; Standing Stone; Cairn
20km Greenland Stone Circle
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)