Tucked under the hill, below a side road and without any signs pointing to it or
information available it's hardly suprising that very few people know anything about this site.
The marker (the 16 foot high arch near the bottom of the picture) is near the spot where Wallace
defeated a few of the English army by dropping rocks on them from the hills along both sides
of the upper reaches of the River Irvine, which is the stream in the valley.
The Loudounhill Inn can be seen in the top right of the photo.

We very much prefer the second version with the mistier light,
but we offer them both to let you decide for yourself.
It's not an ideal site to photograph but from these angles you can see the length of the
valley where the battle took place (on a misty morning) with the monument in the same picture,
which is virtually impossible from ground level.

This is a newer view, more in the "arty" mode.
Taken in March 2007 in early afternoon light.

Click this text line to see a picture of the nearby Lochgoin Monument