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At the wood top is a small quarry. Here turn right, up open grassy slopes. Cross an ancient field system onto the hill fort summit of Dow Hill.

The rock outcrops are a puddingstone (the Benan Conglomerate), containing large rounded cobbles. The basic grey is a greywacke-type sandstone, as found all across the Southern Uplands. The pink lumps within it are an alien rock, Trondhjemite, described below.

Head down southwest over an awkward fence (down right 100 metres to a field corner may help). Pass down to the right of a gorse grove to a gate and arch under the railway. A tractor track leads down to the A714. Cross and turn left along the pavement to a cemetery.

Turn right, forking left on a farm track. An earth track leads through Brochnell farm. (One or two walkers have reported trouble passing through Brochnell, with waymarkers removed. An alternative is to fork right rather than left after the cemetery, and make a way through a caravan site and the auto salvage yard above it onto the base of the hill.)