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Follow the track ahead, past Buchan farm, with its conical turret almost buried among the oaks, and across Buchan Burn below a waterfall. Where the uphill track bends right, take a small path ahead. The peat has eroded away to bare rock on the short pull up to Bruce’s Stone.

Merrick path, looking back along Neive of Spit to Benyellary

WALK 6

The Dungeon Hills

Start/Finish Lower car park at Bruce’s Stone (NX 414 803) Distance 19km (12 miles) Ascent 1050m (3500ft) Approx time 7–8hrs Terrain Small rough paths, rough grassy hillsides and bare granite slabs Max altitude Mullwarchar, 692m Maps Landranger 77 (Dalmellington); Explorer 318 (Galloway N); Harveys Galloway Hills Parking The lower Bruce’s Stone car park, with a ‘dual carriageway’ layout Variant Omit all three hills for a good bad-weather outing or short day past Lochs Valley and Neldricken to Galloway’s central mystery, lovely Loch Enoch – 11.5km (7 miles) with 600m (2000ft) of ascent (about 4½hrs)

Three ridges around the edge of the Galloway Hills include Merrick, Shalloch and Corserine, all with Corbett (2000-footer) status. But these ridges, like the Sanctuary around Annapurna, only conceal the inner hills – Craignaw, Mullwarchar and the Dungeon – and their unique little land of granite and standing water.