While jot the best looking cairn, id say this is a cairn, its visible on google.maps.amd is clrwarly marked out as one. Ive had less appealing cairns be accepted, even in the last month.
Well now there is a 15 day replenish rate it could be worth a go, unless you think you can get a better picture it looks flatter than I recall.
You should reference Canmore.
I’m iffy on the best of cairns. This one is currently just a pile of rocks, mate.
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This is the official place for listing historical interest sites in Scotland. I’ve been up Tinto myself many years ago. The photo is not reflecting my memory from years ago.
This one isnt at the top, its about 2 3rds of the way up. Its in this red circle
It might not even be a cairn, but the way it was set up seemed like one, ie, stones that were used at the other 2 cairns, round set up, the bushes were cleared away etc
It has to be the cairn at the co ordinates on Canmore or it is not important enough.
Well i guess the bottom one also could work if its in good shape. You need to convince reviewer that its not just pile of rock.
Is the nominated cairn the one that exists on Totherin Hill on the walking trail through to the main cairn? - refer https://sobt.co.uk/walk-tinto/ and https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cairn,Totherin_Hill-geograph.org.uk-_60590.jpg .
Refer to the following link https://www.munrosandotherwalks.com/2021/04/tinto.html - “Follow the main path, it will curve to the left slightly. At 480m you will see a small cairn, which is for the lower hill, Totherin hill. The path does split after this, we continued on the main track, to the left which seemed to be better underfoot. If walking on a clear day the top is visible from a distance and getting to the summit is routine”.
Alternatively, is your nomination a Lazy Bed (Post Medieval) - refer https://canmore.org.uk/site/340273/totherin-hill.
Your nomination is definitely worth appealing. I would include links showing that your nominated (smaller) cairn is seperate to the more significant cairn that exists at the end of of the walking trail AND any articles that can show the historical significance of the nominated cairn.
Its not totherin one either, its a smaller one firther up lol
It might be its not actually a cairn to be fair, but when i foudn it looked liek it mighr ahve been oen that had fallen down a bit, cause it wad the same stones as the other cairns were in those hills
In that case I wouldn’t appeal. I think another walk is required to photograph and submit the ones in Canmore. You can go with the co ordinates and get the correct ones.
Yeah, just based on thisbstatement alone, i would say its not a cairn if it has fallen down. Like, the entire point of a cairn is that it’s a set of rocks built up into a simple structure to mark a spot. Once its no longer built up, it isn’t a cairn.
I’ve submitted cairns, not always approved, but they’ve always been piles of rocks that look like a cairn. This looks like an abandoned /something/ and rejection has to be expected. I wouldn’t retry or appeal, but would find a better POI for submission.
Ok, how about this one?
It again doesnt look great, but im pretty sure its on here
Its kinda hard to tie up on the maps
TBH, i would need more proof that this is a real celtic burial site. I know thats how cairns started. But in the many centuries since then, piles of rocks have appeared for various reasons. Without some documentation, your statement just looks like youre hoping thats what this is.
I mean, i linked the website that also says theres a cairn there, its the only cairn looking thing i could see, in the area
Thats where it is on google maps but that link i gave isnt the vest for lini g it up
Well, this is what i see from that link. Its all “unassigned” which doesn’t prove to me that its celtic. Maybe I’m reading it wrong.
Without meaning to be mean, celtic is just the name for olden times in wales, ireland and scotland, theres nonspecific time period, so when i say celtic, its just a burial ground in scotland as my understanding is cairns are.burial grounds, so a burial ground in scotland would be celtic
OK, i looked that up. Y’all have made the word celtic more genrric than i was thinking. To me, it does mean “of or pertaining to the Celts.”
However, you listed it as the grave for Celtic Warriors. That feels specific. I’m not seeing any proof of that specificity. There’s got to be some kind of scientific study of the hill that maps each cairn where a historian said, “Yep, that is most likely a grave from such and such time.” I realize that they wouldn’t have excavated the grave. But again, how does the reviewer know that some local didn’t pile up a bunch of rocks in order to spin a yarn to tourists about a historic warrior’s grave?
If you think what you’ve written is enough for local reviewers, that’s fine. I’m just giving you the perspective of how it looks to a reviewer who has never been there.
Again, celtic is just old in scotland. The link i gave for the map shows a cairn, google maps shows rlughly where the cairn is. Annoyinly j do agree, someone ahould have gone out and worked out exactly which cairn is which and how ling they have been there for, but youll have to convicne a lot of scottish researchers to humph around equipment up hill in scotland where theres a 50/50 chamce it rains in the summer, let along the rest of the year where its pretty kchb always raining 