Geograph - photograph every grid square

The area shown here is on the high ground between the valley of the Spouts Burn (to the SE) and NS4278 : Auchenreoch Glen (to the NW).

I examined the small greenish area in the middle distance, shown at the centre of the photo, which was a little higher than its surroundings. It turned out to be higher because it is flanked by some old tracks.

There is a braid of tracks here; these, in turn, are just part of a very extensive system that evidently connected sites related to the local limestone industry (active here mainly in the eighteenth century). The tracks at this point lead directly north-east; at a point about 1.6 km in that direction, the braid of tracks combines into a single deeper track, which is much more visible: NS4379 : Ancient trackway (that item explains where the system of tracks can be viewed more clearly on satellite imagery).

In the background of the present photograph, a hawthorn tree, right of centre, stands on an NS4277 : Old field boundary. Distant Glen Finlas (centred on NS3289) is behind and just to the left of the tree). Considerably nearer, in the left-hand side of the image, are Carman Hill (NS3779) and neighbouring muirs.