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Name:Broken Cross Muir
Hill number:19493
Height:299m / 981ft
Section:27A: Ayr to the River Clyde
Classification:Tu,2
Drop:54m
Col:245m  NS852395  
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Entry no.Date recordedGrid Ref.Feature / Observations / SurveyRecorded byStatusSubpointLatest review
2874321/07/2019NS 84872 37264  F: none, grassland
O: S of artificial lochan containing 2 large boulders
agentmancuso
Summit
DM
2883324/07/2019NS 84869 37262  F: S of lochan with rock
O: Colin's north top NS 84852 37504 298m +- 4m
chrisbien
Summit
DM
2883421/08/2019NS 85061 36907  F: Grassy rise between lochans - now christened Interlaken Top.
O: Colin's south top NS 85246 37045 297+-4m
chrisbien
Subpoint
2Jim
2985301/12/2019NS 84824 37388  F: Rushy grass
O: W summits NS 84824 37388 and NS 84873 37258 near lochan approx equal; E summit NS 85272 36880 approx 1m lower; NS 85238 37039 about an additional 1m lower
S: Seco 2x hand level
RHW
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2DM



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Parked opposite the Wren Kitchen yard, before site entrance to windfarm (NS 8484 3602). Lot of activity going on here. Walked back down track ~150m, then NW on a good track for 1.3k to end of felled plantation, then headed NE continuing on edge of felled area. Windfarm construction has changed the landscape and as a working site prob shouldn't have been there, but no-one challenged me. NB. The Broken Cross trig pillar has been lost, turbine T2 has buried it!jonglew01/03/2024
Up from the south same route as lordtonult.Andrew Simmons12/02/2023
More or less a direct line from wind turbine to south. Rewilding of opencast workings appears to be successful. Too hot to look for trig in woodland.lordtonult13/08/2022
Parked on minor road to south near Baillieshall farm, up track then pylon FB. Where pylons turn NW, head up bank on right to mine road. Visited likely summits. Lapwings performing courtship displays.vuirich09/04/2021
From Birkhill and back again. Straightforward.sclater01/08/2020
From minor road to the south, track and along FB to mine road visited all possible high points.robertphillips03/07/2020
With 5 others. Glad it was frozen ground. Recommend wellies otherwise. RHW reckoned summit was S of the pair near the lochans. Forest fun getting to trig - someone made me go, I really didn't want to.Minto01/12/2019
Dugswell sums up my final, for the time being, South Lanarkshire TuMP. Benign conditions to visit all the undulations and also a fairly challenging trig. A niceish hill with several lochans. Ground frozen helped too.Thearlaichdubh01/12/2019
A revisit for Charlie Scott's final South Lanarkshire Tump with Rob, Colin, Norman and Jonathan Chopper Woods. Cool and sunny weather made it fun and good to help Colin Crawford fine another trig.Dugswell201/12/2019
Lovely sunny day with firm frozen ground underfoot. Helping Charlie celebrate a Tump completion.NormanW01/12/2019
Second visit for Charlie's South Lanarkshire completionColin Crawford01/12/2019
Group of us to celebrate Thearlaichdubh's South Lanarkshire completion, on a fab frosty day. From S, X-rds, NW then NE to summits - my hand level suggested the eastern 2 summits near lochan about equal; the 2 eastern summits about 1m lower, but too close to be certain. Back via trigRHW01/12/2019
For what it’s worth I determined the HP to be at NS 84875 37261 in agreement with Agentmancuso.chalky195326/11/2019
Parked to the south on the minor road then up track towards Broken Cross trig in its dark forest location then onward to Broken Cross Muir north top then back south over any other likely high points. Then headed SSE to road 400 metres north of my car. Six to eight deer seen along with some small wader like birds.Dugswell210/11/2019
Back again. Went to Colin's south top and Chris Crocker's top.chrisbien21/08/2019
P start of road to Opencast Mine. Just before gate along track heading NW. Along first FB to mine road. Went to Colin's north top and Agent's top then back along NW edge of forest.chrisbien24/07/2019
Went in from the mast access track just E of the motorway, across one field of thigh-high grass, along the pylon FB till it got boggy then through the trees and up the slope to a wide track which I followed to due E of the summit. If I went back I'd use the narrower FB that skirts the 258 spot on the 1:25k, but otherwise this route was sound. We wandered around a bit trying out different bumps but made the high point to be at NS 84872 37264, just south of a lochan with two large boulders.agentmancuso21/07/2019
One of the most natural looking former spoil heaps which I've ever visited. Up from the old road near Baillieshall farm, onto an area of high grassland, vegetation knee deep in places and cattle grazing. The open caste industry isn't pretty but they've made a fine job here of landscaping the old workingsColin Crawford18/07/2019
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ZanderH21/07/2019