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The hard, volcanic rocks have been used to construct cairns, dwellings, dykes and roads around the hills. The shape of the land, with its valleys and relatively non-porous rock, has been well utilised for water catchment.

Visit www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/downloads/lbgcleaflet_pentland.pdf for a leaflet about the geology of the Pentland Hills.

Cultural heritage

There is an impressive range of archaeological sites and remains in the Pentlands. These include the early Bronze Age cairn on Carnethy Hill (Walk 8), the souterrain (an underground chamber or passage) at Castlelaw (Walk 5), and forts at Clubbiedean (Walk 4), Braidwood and Lawhead (Walk 22). Other places, such as Cairns Castle (Walk 11) and the site of the Battle of Rullion Green (Walk 22), are testament to some of the area’s more turbulent times. More recently, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott have been inspired to base stories and characters on the area’s past events (see Walks 2, 4 and 28, for example).

Place names and dialect words