Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017324
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017324
The ridge which forms the skyline of the seaward-facing Tullos and Doonies Hills bears the remains of an important cairn cemetery of the bronze age. Four round cairns survive in varying conditions (the adjacent rubbish tip is gradually being landscaped).
Crab's Cairn (N] 963037) is well positioned with wide views to the sea; it has, however, sustained some damage and is incorporated into a field boundary. It is 14m in diameter and 1.7m high. 500m to the west, along the field boundary, lies Baron's Cairn (N] 957036) in a prominent skyline position on a knoll. It is 18m in diameter and 1.7m high and bears a trig point 800m to the south-west, along the ridge, is Cat Cairn (N] 951031); now somewhat altered, it was originally 22m by 19m and 2.5m high. A possible platform survives on the north and south.
These three cairns are intervisible; the fourth, Tullos Cairn (N] 959040), is not. It lies 425m down slope to the north-east from Baron's Cairn (head for the group of three tower blocks) on a whin- and heather-covered shelf with a view seaward to the north. This cairn of bare stones, 20m in diameter and 2.5m high, is still a considerable landscape feature.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
