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Latitude: 57.134 / 57°8'2"N
Longitude: -2.8757 / 2°52'32"W
OS Eastings: 347089
OS Northings: 805125
OS Grid: NJ470051
Mapcode National: GBR WM.4K25
Mapcode Global: WH7N2.SYSD
Entry Name: Melgum Lodge, mound 300m SE of
Scheduled Date: 16 November 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7912
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary)
Location: Logie-Coldstone
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument comprises the remains of a burial mound of the Bronze Age, some 24m across and 1.5m high.
The mound will cover at least one primary burial, and may contain a number of others. There is some evidence of disturbance but the greater part of the mound appears to survive.
The area to be scheduled measures 40m in diameter, centred on the mound, to include the mound and an area around it in which other features may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a surviving burial mound, in an area where most prehistoric burial mounds have been destroyed, which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric burial traditions in the area. It is of particular importance because of the survival nearby of three ceremonial enclosures, probably broadly contemporary.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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