Ben Lawers

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Ben Lawers
Ben Lawers as seen from Beinn Ghlas

Ben Lawers of Beinn Ghlas seen from

height 1214  m
location Perth and Kinross , Scotland
Notch height 909 m
Coordinates 56 ° 32 '44 "  N , 4 ° 13' 15"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 32 '44 "  N , 4 ° 13' 15"  W.
Ben Lawers (Scotland)
Ben Lawers
3D map by Ben Lawers

3D map by Ben Lawers

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Ben Lawers ( Gaelic : Beinn Labhair ) is one of the highest peaks in the southern part of the Scottish Highlands . It lies on the north side of Loch Tay , and is the highest point of a long ridge that includes seven Munros . Ben Lawers has long been thought to be 4,000 feet tall; however, accurate measurements in the 1870s showed that it is about five meters smaller. In 1878 a group of 20 men spent a day building a large stone mound hoping to bring the summit to an altitude of 4,000 feet. The cairn no longer exists; in any case, the land surveying office ignored the hill as an artificial structure that was not actually part of the mountain.

history

There is ample evidence of former settlements and other human activity on the more southern slopes of Ben Lawers. The discovery of boulders with cup-and-ring markings "suggests that it was a very significant landscape in prehistory." The ruins of huts are each surrounded by a grove of trees and the fluted willows are signs of early cultivation. Overgrown tracks rise up the mountain from the valley to the peat beds on the slope. The limestone and slate on these more southerly slopes have been farmed since very early times and there are many Bronze Age remains.

Before the fourteenth century the mountain stood on Clan MacMillan's land . Chalmers Lawers subjugated the country by force to the rule of David II in the middle of the 14th century . After Thomas Chalmers involved in the murder of James I , the Chalmer family's land was taken over by James III in 1473 . confiscated and given to Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy. The lands (with a few exceptions) remained in the possession of the Campbells of Glenorchy and Breadalbane to this day. Many of the farms were sold in the late 1940s.

Ben Lawers Group Summit

The other peaks of the Ben Lawers group classified as Munros are:

The 1047 m high Creag an Fhithich , located between Ben Lawers and An Stùc, is only classified as a pre-summit of Ben Lawers.

National Trust for Scotland

Most of the south side of Ben Lawers has belonged to the National Trust for Scotland since 1950 and was bought by the generosity of Percy Unna. The area under the management of the National Trust was expanded in 1996 with the purchase of the neighboring Tarmachan Range . The Treuhand owned a tourist center at the western end of the range, which housed an exhibition on the geological formation of the mountain, but was demolished in 2010.

Flora and fauna

Ben Lawers is a National Nature Reserve because of the abundance of rare alpine plants . It is considered by botanists to be one of the richest areas of alpine flora in the UK because of the mountain's slate cliffs that are at the correct elevation for the plants. The mountains provide sufficient calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium and iron for the plants and retain moisture due to their loamy soil. Plants found on Lawers include alpine forget-me-not , rose root , reticulated willow, and most commonly saxifrage . The mountain is also of interest to zoologists. The bird species here are ravens , ring owls , red grouse , ptarmigan and curlews . Rare species are forest lizards and wild cats .

Picture gallery

  • Ben Lawers in winter

  • Lochan Nan Cat from the summit of Ben Lawers

  • Ben Lawers and Meall Garbh

literature

  • DK Mardon: Ben Lawers. 3. Edition. National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh 1986, ISBN 0-901625-54-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ancient stone artwork discovered . BBC. August 17, 2009. Archived from the original on September 21, 2009. Retrieved on September 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve on the NTS website , accessed September 10, 2018
  3. ↑ Ben Lawers. 1986, pp. 24-25.

Web links

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