2018

NS3875 : Castle Hill: view up the western side

taken 6 years ago, near to Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland

Castle Hill: view up the western side
Castle Hill: view up the western side
See NS3875 : Castle Hill: view down the western side for the opposite view, down the slope.

Someone pointed out to me in a conversation about half an hour later that there is a causeway-like path down this side (which is what my picture was intended to capture). See the comments at Link for further discussion; in brief, there is no physical evidence that there was ever a building on this knoll, but the presence of what looks like a path on this side had been noted about a century ago.
Castle Hill and Arthur's Seat

There are two small wooded knolls in the NS3875 : Cunninghame Graham Memorial Park, to the west of Castlehill Road in Dumbarton. The first-edition OS map, surveyed in 1860, calls the smaller knoll Arthur's Seat (NS38407590), and the larger one, 100 metres to the east, Castle Hill (NS38507588). Only because of the name and a tradition does the map show an antiquity, "site of Castle", on Castle Hill; there are and were no remains here.

See a Geograph article — Link — for much more on this area.


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Geographical Context: Park and Public Gardens Primary Subject: Knoll other tags: Cunninghame Graham Memorial Park Click a tag, to view other nearby images.
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Castle Hill [9] Other Photos: · Castle Hill: view down the western side ·
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NS3875, 122 images   (more nearby 🔍)
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Lairich Rig   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 8 January, 2018   (more nearby)
Submitted
Thursday, 18 January, 2018
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3850 7588 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.9239N 4:35.2729W
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OSGB36: geotagged! NS 3849 7588
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East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
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