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In the years before Bannockburn Robert the Bruce conducted guerrilla warfare through these hills. Legend tells of a night attack at Clatteringshaws, down to the east, where the local farm-wife donated her cattle, with saucepans attached, as an imitation army in the dark. Once he’d become king, the grateful Robert gave her this land, and the cairn commemorates this.

Carlin Cairn’s southern spur, a col, and a rise – all south – lead to the trig point on the plateau of Corserine.The variant route arrives here from the east.

Milldown seen from Corserine, with Loch Dungeon and very distant Criffel

The descent line slants slightly left (south-southeast), and unless Millfire is visible ahead you need a compass (or GPS) line here. At 700m level the ridgeline reforms, running south and then southeast, with plantations just below on the right. Keep close to drops on the left for the small path to the cairn on Millfire. The ridge runs level for 800 metres, then rises; above the col a wall crosses, and now walkers have a guiding wall along the ridgeline. The summit cairn of Milldown is out to the left of the wall, above the steep drop to Loch Dungeon.