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Centro de Visitantes Burn O' Vat
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Mo
April 26, 2019
Great walks from here around the nature reserve. Be sure to visit the Vat itself a wonderful cave like formation formed during the glacial times.
Hazel
May 26, 2017
Worth a visit to look at the rock formations. Lovely on a nice day.Walk round Loch Kinord nature reserve too.
Former Member
January 11, 2018
Burn O' Vat is a striking geological quirk, a deep bowl gouged from the surrounding rocks by the passage of water. The aptly named Vat Burn runs down from Culblean Hill on its way to Loch Kinord. Here, it tumbles down a very small waterfall and into an amphitheatre of rocks scooped out over millennia, before passing out through a narrow opening just wide enough to admit a moderately agile person. The bowl was formed by water melting at the end of the last ice age and forming a pothole in the soft rock. This pothole then gradually filled with sand to a depth of 5-7 metres, forming the soft bottom of the Vat as we see it today. Reputedly the hiding place of one Gilderoy MacGregor cousin of Rob Roy and a reiver. Alas not a very good place to hide because he was caught and executed.
Burn O' Vat is a striking geological quirk, a deep bowl gouged from the surrounding rocks by the passage of water. The aptly named Vat Burn runs down from Culblean Hill on its way to Loch Kinord. Here, it tumbles down a very small waterfall and into an amphitheatre of rocks scooped out over millenni…
Lisa
July 7, 2019
Lovely walks with a bit of history
Cheryl
April 30, 2017
According to local folklore, the cave behind the waterfall in the vat was used by Rob Roy, a notorious outlaw, to hide from the authorities.In fact, this is not true, with the cave instead being used as a hiding place for Patrick Gilroy Macgregor, an outlaw renowned for his exploits in Deeside during the 17th century and a possible relative of Rob Roy.
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Dinnet, Scotland