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Latitude: 57.1153 / 57°6'55"N
Longitude: -2.9081 / 2°54'29"W
OS Eastings: 345103
OS Northings: 803077
OS Grid: NJ451030
Mapcode National: GBR WL.5PZL
Mapcode Global: WH7N8.9FF4
Entry Name: Ferny Howe, cairn 200m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 8 November 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM8586
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Logie-Coldstone
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument comprises the remains of a probable burial cairn located on sloping ground some way to the W of an unfinished hillfort.
The probable cairn forms a conspicuous mound in a pasture field. The mound, which is a turf-covered pile of stones, is about 16m in diameter and around 1m high. No kerb stones are visible at the edge of the cairn but the margin of the monument is obscured by stones cleared from the field.
The area to be scheduled is 45m in diameter, to include the probable cairn and an area around it in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the cairn may survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric religious beliefs and burial practices. Burial deposits provide important evidence for the ways in which people buried their dead and the beliefs they held.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NJ 40 SE 44.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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