I'm currently encamped in Airdrie, between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Yesterday I did the short walk to Scotland's lowest county top, Cairnpapple Hill, and had to pay £3 for the privilege. The hill is owned by Historic Scotland as it's one of the best known prehistoric sites on the mainland, with evidence of human activity dating back 5,500 years. Ancient Britons built a henge up there, but out of wood not stone, and it was a burial site. Weather is unhelpful and blustery, praying it brightens up before I take on the highest mountains. Below is the copy of an article in the Sunday Herald from July 9, 2006. (www.sundayherald.com/56638) My thanks go out to Fiona Russell for this. Jonny Muir cycled across the Scottish border on Wednesday. Nothing remarkable in that you might think, except that
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