The Tinkers’ Heart near Cairndow has been given a tidy up by a local tradesman.
The site, well-known to local people for generations, hit the national headlines in 2014 when a campaign was launched, led by Perthshire woman Jess Smith, to have it formally recognised as a scheduled monument. The site comprises a series of 25 quartz stones set in tarmac and formed into a heart shape, with another in the centre. It originally lay at the junction of the Lochgoilhead and
Cairndow-Dunoon roads, but having been bypassed by a new carriageway in the 1960s it now sits in the ‘old road’ in the middle of rough pasture. Cattle grazing around the site led to the heart becoming overgrown and untidy, prompting Cairndow-based community group Here