Photograph Notes: The area ahead is known as the Squirrel Wood, though that name does not appear on OS maps. The path is signposted as a "Public Footpath to B821 at Braehead". It branches off at this point from the Boards Farm Road, or Gowk Stane Road � ://..uk/tagged/Gowk+Stane+Road#photo=3997495 � now part of the John Muir Way. See [[3997313]] for a view of the fence and stile from the other side. For some views from further along the public footpath, see [[4089441]], taken about halfway through the woods, and [[4089590]] and [[4089598]], which show the point where it ends, at the B821. Large-scale OS mapping shows that the Squirrel Wood contains several named crags; one of them, the [[4089164]], was described by J G Smith as follows: "the south side of the strath has also its rocky cliffs and wooded terraces and fine basaltic columns, particularly at the Pillar Craig on the Craigallian estate" ["Parish of Strathblane" (1886), page 3]. Outcrops I had passed just a few minutes earlier on this walk had much the same appearance: [[3996747]] and [[3996738]]. Other examples can be found in the Squirrel Wood itself: by far the most impressive is the already-mentioned [[4089164]], but it is located some way off the public footpath. Two more modest examples can be seen near the footpath: [[4089051]] and [[4089074]]. See also [[3997242]], from a little further ahead. The writer J G Smith, quoted above, links place-names in this area with events in a battle that took place in 750 (the Battle of Mocetauc / Catohic, often called "the Battle Of Mugdock", though its actual location is uncertain); see [[4089074]] for more on that topic.
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