2012

NX8158 : Covenanters' gravesite on "Martyrs' Hill"

taken 12 years ago, near to Palnackie, Dumfries And Galloway, Scotland

Covenanters' gravesite on "Martyrs' Hill"
Covenanters' gravesite on "Martyrs' Hill"
Forty years ago, having seen an iron age fort marked on the map, I climbed the hill and looked all round the slopes where I thought it was supposed to be, but couldn't see any sign of it... When I went back down the hill I mentioned it to the old gamekeeper's widow, who said, "That's the Martyrs' Hill, with the graves of the Covenanters on it."

Later I realised I had been walking all over the site, which, naturally was on the hilltop instead of down the slopes where I expected it - D'oh!!

Yesterday, I revisited what is apparently the site of the Covenanters' graves. It's a nicely 'mature' bit of hilltop woodland with Scots Pines and some lovely old oaks, blaeberries, mosses and loads of what George Peterken calls 'coarse deadwood' (CDW) a great indicator of natural forest conditions.

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NX8158, 11 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Ed Iglehart   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 12 May, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 14 May, 2012
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NX 8196 5836 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:54.3578N 3:50.5536W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NX 8197 5837
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SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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