Hilltop Monuments

Tweets by @N_Addington recording visits to #hilltopmonuments & other curiosities in high, remote or unexpected places, mostly in Scotland. Now on Bluesky.

[Hilltop Monuments @totheobelisk]

Well, that’s 150 sites featured on this micro-blog since I started it nearly 4 yrs ago.
To celebrate, I’ve created a Google map plotting each of them with links to the relevant post/thread.
Lots more #HilltopMonuments to visit! I’ll update the map as I go.
https://t.co/51dRhWENLU

[Hilltop Monuments @totheobelisk]

Thanks to everyone who's followed this micro-blog about #HilltopMonuments and other interesting things in the landscape. I've featured 184 sites to date here on Twitter.
More to come, but I'm migrating to where the sky is blue. Find the link here: https://t.co/HjLB8loYy9

[Hilltop Monuments @totheobelisk]

"...than many that be erected to famous persons by public subscription.
The prospect of Scotland being dotted with monuments to obscure persons who happen to have amassed the sufficiency of means appears to me to be little less than appalling." !

[Hilltop Monuments @totheobelisk]

One of Scotland’s unique #HilltopMonuments, McCaig’s Tower: a vast Colosseum-inspired folly which might have been even more impressive had its creator’s heirs not stymied his posthumous plans. (Thread 🧵)

[Hilltop Monuments @totheobelisk]

"It would be a dangerous thing to support a bequest of this kind which can only gratify the vanity of testators who have no claim to be immortalised but who possess the means by which they can provide the means for more substantial monuments to themselves...