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Ben Lawers, Perthshire

Ben Lawers Ben Lawers is the highest mountain in Perthshire, the county top, and one of the highest mountains in the southern part of the Highlands. It rises up to the north side of Loch Tay, and is the highest point of a long ridge that includes seven Munros. Ben Lawers was long thought to be over 4,000 feet in height but accurate measurement in the 1870s showed it to be some seventeen feet short of this figure. In 1878, a group of twenty men spent a day building a large cairn in the hope of bringing the summit above the "magic" figure. The cairn is no longer there but in any case the Ordnance Survey ignored it as an artificial structure. (Read more)