Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: guessed by Crow Crag

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. This trough carved out of a single gritstone boulder is just outside the perimeter rampart of Carl Wark at Burbage, in the Peak District National Park, near Sheffield. Carl Wark is a spectacular, though somewhat enigmatic, hill fort - probably Iron-age, but with some later Roman usage. The stone trough is even more enigmatic. No-one really knows what it is, or its exact age. Some would like to think it is an Iron-age bath, but it is more likely to be more recent, possibly a horse trough in use during the time of millstone manufacture, of which there is much evidence around and about. See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group. It was blowing very hard when I took this. This is a view from the summit of Suaineabhal (429m) in West Lewis, looking southwards over Loch Gruineabhat to the mountains of North Harris. Clisham (An Cliseam) is the left-most peak of the centre group which at 799m, is the highest mountain in the Western Isles. Suaineabhal is one of the lesser mountains of West Lewis, but a still a grand and rewarding climb, and its relative isolation from other hills makes for superb views all round from the summit. This is a starkly beautiful, remote landscape, little changed since the retreat of the last ice sheet 11,500 years ago. And now they want to cover it with wind turbines. Grrrrrrr!!!!! Suaineabhal is pronounced something like SWAIN-a-vahl