Talk:Dumyat

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[edit] Prominence

Figuring out Dumyat's topographic prominence is a bit tricky. It looks as if the "lowest contour that encircles it and no higher summit" (the definition from that article) is the 205m contour that passes through Lossburn Reservoir (and divides Dumyat from Myreton Hill), yielding a prominence of 418-205 = 213m. This fairly low number is because of the hight of the Sherrifmuir plateau - the hill's south slope falls all the way to the carse above the Devon, which is around 15 metres (giving a drop of 413 metres or so). I took these readings from the OS Explorer 366 1:25,000 scale map. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:45, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Todo

This is mostly a to-do for me:

• add some topographic info (including mention of the cliffs to the south, and sherrifmuir to the north)
• stuff about the beacon and the argyle's monument on top
• hydrology (some drains into the Devon, the rest into the inchna burns and eventually into the Allan)
• a mention of Blairlogie, Menstrie, and the Uni
• maybe do a spoken-wikipedia version, once its stable.

-- Finlay McWalter | Talk 23:07, 3 January 2006 (UTC)