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Latitude: 57.6836 / 57°41'1"N
Longitude: -2.099 / 2°5'56"W
OS Eastings: 394192
OS Northings: 865978
OS Grid: NJ941659
Mapcode National: GBR P85D.WKZ
Mapcode Global: WH9N6.Q4NH
Entry Name: Woodside, cairn 215m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 27 January 2005
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM11020
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cairn (type uncertain)
Location: Pitsligo
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Troup
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
The monument comprises a cairn of prehistoric date, visible as a grass-covered, earth and stone mound, possibly originally associated with other cairns in the immediate vicinity that have since been destroyed.
The monument is situated within a small enclosure, on the south side of the road from Peathill, at c.55m OD. The monument comprises a mound measuring c. 26m N-S by c. 24m E-W, with a maximum height of 1.7m. The cairn is grassed over, except on the west side where many stones are exposed. A circular depression, slightly banked on the NE side, and measuring c. 8m by 7m by 0.3m deep, is present to the west of the centre of the mound and may be the result of the former excavation in the 18th century, when a stone cist, flint arrowheads and ashes were found.
Cairns of this type are funerary monuments dating to the Neolithic and Bronze Age, and may be expected to contain material relating to their mode of construction and use.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is irregular in shape, with maximum dimensions of 28m N-S by 28m E-W as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The scheduled area is defined to the north, west and south by stone field boundaries which are themselves excluded from the schedule.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric funerary and ritual practices. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
The monument is recorded by RCHAMS as NJ96NW 10. The monument is recorded in the Grampian Region Archaeological Index also as NJ96NW 6.
References:
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOK (COUNTY) 1871, Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey.
OSA 1791-9, THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND, DRAWN UP FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS OF THE MINISTERS OF THE DIFFERENT PARISHES, Sir John Sinclair, Edinburgh, Vol. 5, 97.
Map references:
Ordnance Survey 1874 (Aberdeenshire) 1st edition map, 6 inches to 1 mile.
Ordnance Survey 1903 (Aberdeenshire) 2nd edition map, 6 inches to 1 mile.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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