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8th May 2023  14:35  by A1Mushroom

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Parked in the car park for the Gardens and walked back up to the farm. Asked the farmer for permission and no problem. Managed to fit in the telephone box easily to get a picture of the FB.

25th Oct 2022  14:15  by Ang_argyll

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 1/10

Trig lying inside the old red phone box it used to be in on top of the hill. Now up a path at Arduaine Farm yard. Followed vegibaggers directions. Lovely lunch at Loch Melfort Hotel - bonus!

©Ang_argyll
©Ang_argyll

17th Sep 2022  16:50  by spidym

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Quick walk around from the Arduine gardens. Still in Red pillar box. Pushed aside for windfarms I guess :(

A look inside

20th Jul 2019  08:24  by CJO

Gridref: NM 79717 10603   FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Now located inside a phone box. Which is a farm yard "dump site" with water tanks, rusting scrap up a farm track towards the coast, above what looks like a carpark and small boat yard under construction. Could feel FB but did not get my shoulders far enough in to get a view

19th May 2018  08:52  by jonglew

Gridref: NM 79711 10601   FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Sadly moved from its hillside location, it is currently lying prone still concreted inside the red telephone box that was erected over it when on the hill. It lies dumped unceremoniously with farming and other materials behind a section of wind turbine on Arduaine Farm. An original top cap is retained, deeply indented lettering. The FB can be photographed by crawling into the roofless phone box. Owner has a plan to resurrect it to its correct location - but will he ever?

In the phone box TP1172©jonglew
Looks small in there TP1172©jonglew
Spider TP1172©jonglew
Flush Bracket TP1172©jonglew

13th May 2018  14:32  by vegibagger

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

Good but unusually toppled temporarily. I have the full story from the horses mouth, The Laird, Mike Campbell. Some years ago. he and his wife bought two old telephone boxes. He decided it would be quite a laugh to put one right over the top of the trig pillar on the top of the hillside. Now a couple of years back he was fed up with the amount of litter that people visiting it had put inside to phone box and the amount of gates on the track left open and fences broken so he decided to remove the phone box. Had no intention of removing the pillar too but in concreting in the box the bar had welded itself to the pillar and so with the big digger that he used, the trig pillar came away too and top got knocked off the box, perhaps fortunately for us to be able to see and photograph it. But they are not lost and he says intends to put the pillar back at some stage,though I doubt in reality if he'll ever get around to it. In the mean time phone box with trig still in side it, is stored behind some mega big pipes at the back of the first little knoll hill west of the road, north of the Loch Melfort Hotel... Grid ref NM797 106 Directions.. Immediately off road at entrance to Loch Melford Hotel drive, gate on right onto farm yard. Ask permission if you can. Head left through other gate. Along track till splits shortly, take left fork. Further 150metres big storage yard on left in cutaway behind hill... huge pipe directly in front of you at right end. Telephone box with trig inside is behind it.

8th Aug 2017  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NM 79716 10593   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Moved  Score: 5/10

No sign of it. 16/5/18 - Re-visit to moved site in yard of Arduaine Farm Services NM 79945 10549 - off drive to hotel CP and Arduaine gardens just off A816. Thru' yard to farm gate to left and up left hand side track to dump area on left. Trig still in phone box, behind old wind turbine.

30th May 2016  18:17  by Icecreamman

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Couldn't find it  Score: 5/10

Having been up to this trig point several times over the past six or seven years, once again walked up from Loch Melfort Hotel to find horror of horrors the trig point and its covering phone box are missing!

1st Mar 2012  16:00  by redDragon

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

High mark for interest. Ive never seen anything like this one. The pillar has been sealed inside a public telephone box. Spanners and pliers are needed to access the pillar. Unfortunately I didnt bring any, as I didnt think we'd go past it this way today. Good views though, and at least the trig is safe from the weather. To reach I followed a track opposite arduaine farm, which leads almost up to the top, and a quick grassy ascent from the end of the woodland. Could see flush bracket through a gap in panel.

9th Oct 2010  12:09  by coinea

Gridref: NM 81112 10198   FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

9th Oct 2010  12:08  by clochandighter

Gridref: NM 81114 10202   FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Some numpty had arranged for a telephone call box to be lifted over the trig pillar then chose to secure it shut. This was something I had never bargained for. Luckily I always go out `tooled up` for unexpected access problems. The flush bracket faces west (left of TCB) so temporary careful removal of the bottom pane was necessary for photography. The pane and and door were reinstated securely before leaving. Any future visitor will need to bring pliers / socket set / spanners etc. Pillar in good condition. Spider retains OS centre cap with deep indented letters. Flush bracket faces 269° west. All sight holes buried in foundation concrete for kiosk.

S9729 - Beinn Chaorach and guess who.
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach the inital approach
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach flush bracket - very difficult to photo, pane removal necessary to view.
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach the cocooned trig
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach general view TO northeast
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach general view TO southwest
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach general view TO northwest
the iron founders embossment
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach doors open time
where the call box was located
upon leaving bolts and pane reinstated
S9729 - Beinn Chaorach pillar & FB

24th Apr 2009  16:40  by Chalky

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

29th Apr 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

vgc, metal cap, deep letters. Fine view. From WNW, first gate has permanent No Shooting sign; 3rd gate No Dogs. PS 2011 - no phone box at time of visit. Reportedly a revenge attack by local farmer http://www.collage-arts.org/2011/04/04/vaughn-melzer-chocolate-factory-artist/

22nd May 2003  13:00  by Pharisee

Gridref: NM 81113 10204   FB Number: S9729  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Located on the summit of Beinn Chaorach, just to the east of Arduaine, on the west coast of Scotland. I parked in a lay-by, off the A816, located at N56° 14.421 W05° 32.425. In the corner of the lay-by is the start of the Kames Footpath, which seemed to head in the right direction. Unfortunately, the footpath was just a few rough steps cut into the hillside that led to a barbed wire topped fence. Once across the fence I was on my own and faced with a mature pine forest. It was hard work but I eventually came out onto the hillside at the southeastern side of the forest. The next problem was a four foot high wire fence that I climbed effortlessly. On the other side of the fence was a rough track the zig-zagged up the hill. I followed this up as far as it went then stuck out for the summit. The last few hundred feet were hard but not insurmountable. When I reached the trig point, I found that someone had been up there with a paint pot as the concrete pillar was sporting a new coat of white paint. The pillar was aligned pretty much on the cardinal compass points with the number plate on the west face. All the metalwork was in place. It started to rain while I was up there and the views were pretty hazy but I could still see for miles in all directions. To the south and east there were just more hills but to the north I could see across Loch Melfort to the peak at Dun Crutagain. To the west are the islands of Eilean Creagach, Shuna and beyond them, Luing. Coming down, I followed the track for a while then ‘bushwhacked’ through the pine forest until I came to a wire fence at the top of someone’s garden. There was plenty of cover and as I was in full camo I thought the chances of being seen were minimal. I crossed the fence and moved quickly across their property to the drive and then back out onto the A816 about 300 yards from the car.

The Plate
The Trig Point
The view to the North Overlooking Loch Melfort. The highest peak on the left is Dun Crutagain with Druim an Fhaillich in the centre.
The view to the East
The view to the South
The view to the West The islands, starting with the little one that's closest are Eilean Creagach, then there's Shuna, then Luing with Scarba (the highest) and just visible is Lunga.