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One of two radio aerials that remain from the Second World War. These were designed to receive high frequency transmissions from South Africa.
©Calum McRoberts
For a winter view see [[637498]].
©M J Richardson
These are high frequency radio aerials that were set up to receive signals from South Africa during the Second World War. The tracks in the snow were made by an early morning fox on its wanders.
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.1km<br/>Carry on up the track to get to Allermuir Hill, on the skyline in the middle. The two small wind turbines would appear to be providing power for some meteorological instrumentation.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Freezing fog swirling around the trees beside the Boghall Burn, gave this an almost surreal quality - 10 minutes later, I was above the clouds.
©Adam Ward
Dist:0.2km<br/>Barley to the left, and sheep pasture the other side of the beech shelter belt. Caerketton Hill is the other side of the Boghall Burn valley, and the two aerials visible on the lower slopes are apparently relics of WW2.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Deep snow on the slopes of Caerketton Hill with Boghall plantation also visible. The many gorse bushes on this side of the hill are well covered after another overnight fall of snow.
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.2km<br/>Sheep at pasture on the lower slopes of Caerketton Hill. Boghall Farm is part of the Scottish Agricultural Colleges organisation and in the Pentland Hills Regional Park [[1419344]].
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>Further heavy snowfall reveals the progress of this fox close to the buildings at Boghall Farm.
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.2km<br/>Livestock in the Pentland Hills Regional Park, in Boghall Glen, with Allermuir Hill in the background.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>A field of barley, still green with no sign of ripening at the end of July - not surprising at 250 m a.s.l. in Scotland. 40 years ago nobody would have thought of growing barley on the lower slopes of the Pentland Hills, but cultivars and farming practice have changed.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>A heavily shaded farm road going into the Pentland Hills, with the Boghall Burn in the trees to the right.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking towards East Lothian from the slopes of Caerketton Hill.
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>The fields below Woodhouselee Hill are separated by strips of woodland such as this. This one is used to carry the new path linking Boghall with Castlelaw.
©Callum Black
Dist:0.3km<br/>Information board at Boghall.
©M J Richardson

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