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Blue Cairn
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blue Cairn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Drummy Wood
Canmore ID 17013
Site Number NJ40SE 16
NGR NJ 4675 0400
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17013
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tarland
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ40SE 16 4675 0400
See also NJ40SE 17.
(NJ 4675 0400) Blue Cairn (NAT)
OS 6"map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
Blue Cairn, a pyramidal pile 90ft diameter, 7 or 8ft high, disturbed on the W for wall building. It has been a "platformed cairn" - the platform is 12ft broad on the W, 8 on the N, 5 on the E and 7 or 8 on the S. The cairn itself is 65ft E to W and 77 N to S. There are numerous "cup hollows" all over it.
A second cairn of small size lies close to its eastern side.
A Ogston 1931.
Blue Cairn, situated on the summit of a low ridge, is c.23.0m diameter and c.2.0m high, built of large stones with its top mutilated by the building of small shelters, possibly the 'cup hollows' referred to. The 'platform' is tumbled turf covered material around the cairn perimeter. The second 'cairn' is a stone clearance heap (see NJ40SE 17 - Settlement).
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 24 October 1968.
This cairn is situated in grassland on a ridge at an altitude of 200m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/36.
