The Hermitage

Today's blip expedition turned out to be another hike up the Ochills, although I never intended it to be. I had decided to go in search of "the Hermitage" - a little building in the woods to just outside the uni. I had thought that the building was on ground level - little did I know that it was actually at the top of the hill!
So, this is the only entrance to the hermitage building (actually situated precariously on the hill side). Note the narrow path to the door with the near-certain-death-if-you-loose-your-footing type slope to the left. The whole thing is very Zeppelin-esque (note the Pagan-ritual-like paraphernalia scattered around the place). This pic shows the hermitage from above (from the actual peak of the hill - just a few metres above), and this pic shows the height that it's at, relative to the monument.

Here's a bit blurb about the estate that the uni is situated on, which sheds a little light on the building:

"The Estate passed through various hands until about 1678 when it was purchased by John Hope of Hopetoun. Mr Hope was one of those who, while accompanying the Duke of York from London to Scotland by sea in the frigate 'Gloucester', when it was wrecked on 7 May 1682. He was succeeded by Charles Hope of Hopetoun who was raised to the peerage on 5 April 1703 with the titles of Viscount Airthire, Baron Hope and Earl of Hopetoun. In 1706 the lands were sold to Ralph Dundas, whose son John Dundas built the house at Airthrey in 1748. The Estate was then sold to Captain Robert Haldane of Plean in 1759. It was his son, Robert Haldane, who commissioned the present design by Robert Adam. He also built a stone wall extending nearly four miles around the edge of the Estate and was responsible for the development of the gardens. A contemporary account records that the erection of the Hermitage, in what is now known as Hermitage Wood, nearly cost Mr Haldane his life when he was only saved from falling over the cliff by grabbing a post at the cliff edge and being pulled back by workmen. The same account says that Mr Haldane enjoyed practical jokes and that he even went to the length of advertising for a real hermit, setting a number of conditions including the prohibition of animal foods and an obligation never to leave the wood. One apparently serious application was received, but the would-be hermit could not make up his mind to bind himself to the last condition."