Hilltop Monuments
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Occasional posts by @addingtonnick@bsky.social recording visits to #hilltopmonuments and other curiosities in high, remote or unexpected places, mostly in Scotland. Formerly on the other place @totheobelisk.
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Sites featured on the Twitter microblog @totheobelisk (and now at @totheobelisk.bsky.social): monuments and other curiosities in high, remote or unexpected places, mostly in Scotland
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All the locations featured on this account are on this Google Map ⬇️, including:
📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
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📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
The Garnethill Pyramid.
Part of a 35-year old artwork that fills much of Garnethill Park, a small greenspace north of Glasgow city centre, and close to Glasgow School of Art.
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Part of a 35-year old artwork that fills much of Garnethill Park, a small greenspace north of Glasgow city centre, and close to Glasgow School of Art.
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October 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Garnethill Pyramid.
Part of a 35-year old artwork that fills much of Garnethill Park, a small greenspace north of Glasgow city centre, and close to Glasgow School of Art.
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Part of a 35-year old artwork that fills much of Garnethill Park, a small greenspace north of Glasgow city centre, and close to Glasgow School of Art.
Thread 🧵
All the locations featured on this account are on this Google Map ⬇️, including:
📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
Hilltop monuments and other curiosities - Google My Maps
Sites featured on the Twitter microblog @totheobelisk (and now at @totheobelisk.bsky.social): monuments and other curiosities in high, remote or unexpected places, mostly in Scotland
www.google.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
All the locations featured on this account are on this Google Map ⬇️, including:
📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
📷 an image of each monument or site
🔗 a link to the relevant post/thread.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...
A hidden gem this attractive Gothic tower, built to commemorate Wellington's victory at Waterloo.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A hidden gem this attractive Gothic tower, built to commemorate Wellington's victory at Waterloo.
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Two #HilltopMonuments to heroes of the Napoleonic Wars, a mile apart, near Bakewell in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Modest in scale and not highly visible from a distance, they are interesting curiosities, nonetheless.
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August 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Two #HilltopMonuments to heroes of the Napoleonic Wars, a mile apart, near Bakewell in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Modest in scale and not highly visible from a distance, they are interesting curiosities, nonetheless.
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It’s a perfect love
Large, bold, generous, expansive, a little wild.
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Large, bold, generous, expansive, a little wild.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It’s a perfect love
Large, bold, generous, expansive, a little wild.
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Large, bold, generous, expansive, a little wild.
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St Cuthbert’s Cross, Alnmouth, Northumberland.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
St Cuthbert’s Cross, Alnmouth, Northumberland.
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A trio of mediaeval crosses on the North York Moors: Young Ralph, Old Ralph and Fat Betty.
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August 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A trio of mediaeval crosses on the North York Moors: Young Ralph, Old Ralph and Fat Betty.
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July 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
High on a shoulder of the hill called The Beacon, on the Simonside ridge near Rothbury in Northumberland, sits a truly remarkable boulder, known as Thompson's Rock.
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July 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
High on a shoulder of the hill called The Beacon, on the Simonside ridge near Rothbury in Northumberland, sits a truly remarkable boulder, known as Thompson's Rock.
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Sharp's Folly - an 18th century round tower in the hamlet of Whitton, just south of Rothbury, Northumberland.
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July 14, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sharp's Folly - an 18th century round tower in the hamlet of Whitton, just south of Rothbury, Northumberland.
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Who is this pious lady gazing heavenward from the kirkyard at Pittenweem Parish Church in Fife? It's a noteworthy sculpture on its own merits, but could it be something even more unusual?
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June 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Who is this pious lady gazing heavenward from the kirkyard at Pittenweem Parish Church in Fife? It's a noteworthy sculpture on its own merits, but could it be something even more unusual?
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This cairn sits atop a low mound in upper Glen Lyon, Perth & Kinross. It commemorates local man Robert Campbell, who had a notable - if not exactly glorious - career as an explorer and trader in Canada, becoming the first European to explore the upper reaches of the Yukon River.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This cairn sits atop a low mound in upper Glen Lyon, Perth & Kinross. It commemorates local man Robert Campbell, who had a notable - if not exactly glorious - career as an explorer and trader in Canada, becoming the first European to explore the upper reaches of the Yukon River.
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One of Edinburgh's less well-known #HilltopMonuments - views of it being obscured by the mature trees surrounding it - this is Clermiston Tower on Corstorphine Hill in the west of the city.
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June 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
One of Edinburgh's less well-known #HilltopMonuments - views of it being obscured by the mature trees surrounding it - this is Clermiston Tower on Corstorphine Hill in the west of the city.
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In between the weather fronts of Storm Ashley back in Oct last year was the most perfect window of blustery autumn sunshine, so we set out to find Lady Margaret’s Tower, high in the oak wood that covers the peninsula known as Garbh Ard in the Benderloch region of Argyll.
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June 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In between the weather fronts of Storm Ashley back in Oct last year was the most perfect window of blustery autumn sunshine, so we set out to find Lady Margaret’s Tower, high in the oak wood that covers the peninsula known as Garbh Ard in the Benderloch region of Argyll.
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These three elegant stone-built navigation pillars mark the rocky entrance to a small harbour at Knockbrex on the Solway coast, Dumfries & Galloway.
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June 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
These three elegant stone-built navigation pillars mark the rocky entrance to a small harbour at Knockbrex on the Solway coast, Dumfries & Galloway.
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Reposting for #HillfortsWednesday
Standing stone erected at the centre of the hillfort on Dabshead Hill, near Lauder, Scottish Borders.
Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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June 11, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Reposting for #HillfortsWednesday
Standing stone erected at the centre of the hillfort on Dabshead Hill, near Lauder, Scottish Borders.
Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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June 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Standing stone erected at the centre of the hillfort on Dabshead Hill, near Lauder, Scottish Borders.
Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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Notable for its location, its re-use of a (probably) prehistoric monument, and for being that rare thing, a #HilltopMonument commemorating a woman. #StandingStoneSunday
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It feels appropriate for a time traveller to be granted the privilege of a memorable burial spot.
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May 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It feels appropriate for a time traveller to be granted the privilege of a memorable burial spot.
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This 4m-high tapering column on the rocks at Scurdie Ness on the east coast of Scotland is a navigational aid for mariners that predates the lighthouse beyond by a century or so.
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May 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
This 4m-high tapering column on the rocks at Scurdie Ness on the east coast of Scotland is a navigational aid for mariners that predates the lighthouse beyond by a century or so.
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What are we looking at here?
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March 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This enormous concrete symbol can be found laid out in the grass adjacent to the ruined Kilbrannan Chapel at Skipness Point on the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll.
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This enormous concrete symbol can be found laid out in the grass adjacent to the ruined Kilbrannan Chapel at Skipness Point on the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll.
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February 25, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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This enormous concrete symbol can be found laid out in the grass adjacent to the ruined Kilbrannan Chapel at Skipness Point on the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll.
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This enormous concrete symbol can be found laid out in the grass adjacent to the ruined Kilbrannan Chapel at Skipness Point on the Kintyre peninsula, Argyll.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Long Stone of Convention.
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February 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The Long Stone of Convention.
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This life-sized figure representing the entombment of Christ is one of a mysterious series of relief carvings to be found at the foot of a sandstone cliff on a steeply wooded bank of the River Clyde, immediately opposite Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire.
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February 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This life-sized figure representing the entombment of Christ is one of a mysterious series of relief carvings to be found at the foot of a sandstone cliff on a steeply wooded bank of the River Clyde, immediately opposite Bothwell Castle in Lanarkshire.
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