We really enjoyed walking down this road and observing the serenity.
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Muir of Dinnet blends woodland, heath, open water and an impressive example of nature's sculptural work, all on one site.
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'Muir' is a local variant to the word 'moor', but there is much more than moorland crammed into this 1,163 hectare reserve, which should perhaps be called the Muir of Diversity.
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Couldn't figure out this growth on many of the trees.
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Wet hollows left after the Ice Age have filled with peat and created areas of raised bog and fen, while the melting ice formed Lochs Davan and Kinord.
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"Away from it all!"
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Conservation i(including replanting) s obviously a major activity here.
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We found remains of hut circles and medieval moated homesteads.
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Humans have also left their mark here over 8,000 years. A crannog - a hut on stilts - was built on Loch Kinord during the Iron Age. The base of the crannog, where oak trees were driven into the loch bed and infilled with stones, remains today as a small island covered with trees.
