The hills and mountains of Scotland always seem at their most magnificent when it's raining or, even better, when the rain is just clearing and the sun peeps out. It doesn't rain much in Golspie so our expedition in this morning's rain, up onto the moorland to the west of the village, brought back happy memories of rambles in a wetter part of this country. The picture shows Silver Rock.
We approached the open moorland along a different route through the forestry from the one we had used previously. It started as a muddy track which suddenly ended. This left us with the choice of turning back or following a deer trail through a coniferous forest plantation which had been cleared, leaving a broken landscape of felled tree stumps, boggy holes and new growth, across which the Golspie fire of July 2018 had raged.
Following a deer trail does have advantages as it led to where the deer fence was down, enabling us to get through onto....
....the open moor. As always, my interest was to see if there was any sign of archaeology, particularly as this area had also been burnt in the fire, leaving any sites exposed, but we failed to find anything, except to note the area of pale grassland to the right in this picture, which looks as if it may have been cleared at some point for cultivation.
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