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Hartsholme Country Park and the Falls of Acharn - Walks Around Britain - s04e04
Andrew, his daughter Olivia and the dogs take a walk around Hartsholme Country Park in the city of Lincoln, and then Andrew's other daughter Alannah joins them all for a climb to the Falls of Acharn in Perth and Kinross.
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A walk to the Falls of Acharn - Walks Around Britain Shorts
A quick look at a walk to the mighty Falls of Acharn in Perth & Kinross.
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Acharn Woods walk, Killin, Perthshire, Scotland, UK
A short walk ideal for taking children offering good views.
Acharn Falls, Loch Tay and Dalerb
Acharn Falls, Loch Tay and Dalerb
Scotland - Acharn and Aberfeldy - Winter Waterfalls
Our first road trip of 2019, exploring Perthshire, Loch Tay and local waterfalls. Perfect for short winter hikes.
We departed from Edinburgh and in less than 2 hours with 1 quick coffee stop we reached small place next to Loch Tay called Acharn. The stop at the foot of Loch Tay is a must if you are after beautiful Highlands scenery. We then continued down the road and took a short trek in Birks of Aberfeldy. All in all a fantastic all day trip.
Acharn Falls
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Willie's View: Loch Tay And Acharn
Friend travel writer Willie Shand is on the shores of Loch Tay this week. Find out more about his trip on our website, here:
Acharn Lodges at Killin Scotland UK walk to Forest.MP4
Falls of Acharn.
Just a little outside Kenmore, you can find the Falls.
Music ⓒ - Kevin MacLeod
Canyoning. The Acharn Falls. Promo
promo for the film of our last canyoning trip
Falls of Acharn
a 4k test clip of the main falls .
the full video will be up next week
Falls of Acharn
Waterfalls above Loch Tay
Acharn forest - Killin Scotland UK Part 1 - 3rd Apr12.MP4
The weather in Scotland is changeable - yesterday 2nd of April there was no snow but on the 3rd it snowed with 24 Degree C difference from 2nd April 2012
First Trip of the year- Canyoning Acharn Falls
Despite the absolutely FREEZING cold water we hit Acharn Falls today for my first Canyon trip of 2019. I absolutely love this waterfall.
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Winter in Aberfeldy, Kenmore and Acharn.
Drone and Osmo footage from Highland Perthshire featuring Wades Bridge and the Black Watch Monument, Loch na Creige, Kenmore, Acharn Falls and Loch Tay
Places to see in ( Killin - UK )
Places to see in ( Killin - UK )
Killin is a village situated at the western head of Loch Tay in Stirling, Scotland. The west end of the village is magnificently sited around the scenic Falls of Dochart, the main street leading down towards the Loch at the confluence of the rivers Dochart and Lochay. The falls are crossed by a narrow, multi-arched stone bridge carrying the main A827 road into Killin.
Killin railway station was on the Killin Railway. The railway station was officially closed on 1 November 1965. Killin has a small primary school with 56 pupils. For secondary education the children have to travel to Callander, 21 miles to the south. The nearest Gaelic medium primary is in Stirling, 37 miles to the south.
The MacNab Clan were once dominant here, and have long been associated with Killin. Their ancient burial ground is on Inchbuie in the River Dochart, just below the falls, and is visible from the bridge. Kinnell House was the seat of the MacNabs. A well-preserved prehistoric stone circle (possibly 'restored' to improve its appearance) known as Killin Stone Circle can be seen in the grounds of the house. To the north of the village lie the ruins of the Campbells of Breadalbane stronghold of Finlarig Castle, with its associated chapel. The growing power of the Campbells eventually ousted the MacNabs, who lost Kinnell House to their rivals. In 1694 Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy, 1st Earl of Breadalbane established Killin as a Burgh of barony. In 1949 Kinnell House and its estate returned to the ownership of the Chief of Clan Macnab, but in 1978 death duties forced the then Chief, James Charles Macnab of Macnab, to sell most of the estate.
In 1767 the minister of Killin, James Stuart, published the first New Testament in Scottish Gaelic. By the end of the 18th century there was a local linen industry. Flax was grown locally, spun in small mills and woven into linen by home based weavers. Today, Killin services the local rural community and the growing tourism and leisure industries. In addition to walking on Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, fishing for trout and salmon there are various watersports available on Loch Tay. Many local vernacular buildings have been preserved or converted, allowing the village to retain much of its historic character.
The 19th century Moirlanich Longhouse in nearby Glen Lochay is a rare surviving example of the cruck frame Scottish longhouse, and is now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The former Breadalbane Folklore Centre in the Victorian mill by the falls displays the 'healing stones' of Saint Fillan.
Tomnadashan Mine, an abandoned copper mine overlooking the village, is sometimes identified as the haunt of the Rabbit of Caerbannog of Monty Python and the Holy Grail fame. Nearby Glen Lochay is the mysterious location to which Richard Hannay, played by Robert Donat, heads in the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of The 39 Steps.
( Killin - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Killin . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Killin - UK
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Canyoning - Acharn (Scotland 2014) water sports
Acharn canyon is located in Perthshire, Scotland. We filmed our journey through this canyoning using just a Toshiba Camileo X sport camera. Music by Phantongram Edited by Bend Your Knees Productions 2014
Filmed by Scott Callard
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Glenashdale Falls, Isle of Arran, 23-08-2016
Artificial islands older than Stonehenge stump scientists
A study of crannogs in Scotland's Outer Hebrides reveals some were built more than 3,000 years earlier than previously thought. But what purpose did they serve?.
When it comes to studying Neolithic Britain (4,000-2,500 B.C.), a bit of archaeological mystery is to be expected. Since Neolithic farmers existed long before written language made its way to the British Isles,
the only records of their lives are the things they left behind. And while they did leave us a lot of monuments that took, well, monumental effort to build think Stonehenge, or the stone circles of Orkney,
the cultural practices and deeper intentions behind these sites are largely unknown.
Now it looks like there may potentially be a whole new type of Neolithic monument for archaeologists to scratch their heads over: crannogs.
Artificial islands commonly known as crannogs dot hundreds of Scottish and Irish lakes and waterways. Until now, researchers thought most were built when people in the Iron Age (800-43 B.C.).
Created stone causeways and dwellings in the middle of bodies of water. But a new paper published today in the journal Antiquity suggests that at least some of Scotland’s nearly 600 crannogs are much,
much older nearly three thousand years older putting them firmly in the Neolithic era. What’s more, the artifacts that help push back the date of the crannogs into the far deeper past,
may also point to a kind of behavior not previously suspected in this prehistoric period.
A possibility that some crannogs may date as far back as the Neolithic first arose in the 1980s, when archaeologists excavating an Iron Age islet in a loch (lake) on Scotland’s North Uist island realized,
they were looking at a Neolithic site instead. But though researchers suspected it wasn’t the only case, searches of other crannogs in subsequent years yielded no evidence of Neolithic origins.
That changed in 2012, when a local diver found distinctively Neolithic pottery in the water around crannogs in the Outer Hebrides, the windswept islands off of Scotland’s western mainland.
Local museum officials, and archaeologists joined in the search and eventually identified five artificially constructed islets with Neolithic origins,
based on radiocarbon dating of stone-age pottery, and/or ancient timbers discovered near the edges of the artificial structures.
Reuse of the islets over millennia made it hard to find signs of Neolithic life on the crannogs. But the water surrounding them tells a different story.
For archaeologists used to finding just bits, and pieces of six millennia-year-old pottery, the condition of the nearly intact Neolithic ceramic vessels found in the water around the crannogs is “amazing,” says Duncan Garrow,
an associate professor of archaeology at the University of Reading, who co-authored the paper. “I’ve never seen anything like it in British archaeology,” he says. “People seem to have been chucking this stuff in the water.”
But why were Neolithic people tossing their “good china” off of artificial islets?. Without direct accounts from the time period,
archaeologists can only speculate as to why the crannogs were built, how they were used, and why they became places for pottery disposal.
Garrow and his colleagues surmise they were used for feasting, another unknown set of religious or social rituals, or both. Vicki Cummings,
An expert in Neolithic monuments from the University of Central Lancashire who was not involved in the research, says these crannogs appear isolated from both everyday Neolithic life,
(since they're located away from domestic settlements), and death (due to a lack of tombs or human remains).
Neolithic Britons loved building things with big rocks, but the crannogs are unlike settlements or other monuments. “Who would want to spend all of their time putting stones in a loch?.” Cummings asks,
pointing to the fact that some of the stones used to build crannogs weigh around 550 pounds. “It’s a crazy thing to spend your time doing.”
Cummings suggests the sites’ isolation, and the pottery that surrounds them, could point to rituals that marked life transitions like the passage from childhood to adulthood.
“Clearly it was not appropriate to take the pottery [brought to the Neolithic crannogs] home,” she says.
How many more of these “new” Neolithic monuments are out there?. Only 20 percent of Scotland’s nearly 600 crannogs have even been scientifically dated, and Cole Henley,
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