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Cossack Wood
Cairn (Prehistoric), Cairnfield (Period Unknown), Arrowhead(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric)
Site Name Cossack Wood
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric), Cairnfield (Period Unknown), Arrowhead(S) (Flint)(Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Wester Elchies; Campbell's Cairns; Campbellscairns
Canmore ID 16395
Site Number NJ24SW 8
NGR NJ 2443 4401
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16395
- Council Moray
- Parish Knockando
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Field Visit (10 May 1971)
NJ24SW 8 centre 244 440.
Names centred
NJ 2403 4410: Cairns (NR) (sites of)
NJ 2417 4409: Cairn (NR) (site of)
NJ 2440 4409: Cairns (NR)
NJ 2443 4401: Cairn (NR)
NJ 2438 4392: Campbell's Cairns (NR)
NJ 2445 4375: Cairns (NR)
NJ 2415 4414: Flint Arrowheads found (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A group of cairns composed of large stones. One of them, at NJ 2443 4401, lies on a slight mound and is about 2' in height and 40' in diameter.
Those to the north of the road were removed in 1835 the stones being built into the wall which bounds the road. A few flint arrow-heads were found among the cairns.
The name Campbell's Cairns comes from the tradition of a battle on the site in which the Campbells were defeated by another clan.
(Name Book 1870).
Only two or three ill-defined mounds survive of the published 'cairns', in woodland and are undoubtedly stone clearance heaps of a field system. The name 'Campbell's Cairns' is now only applied locally to the nearby croft Campbellscairns.
The larger mound at NJ 2443 4401 remains as a slight circular, stony bank, scarcely traceable in the NW, in which are about eight stones on edge, some of them displaced. It measures c.12.5m in diameter. It is uncertain whether it represents the remains of a hut circle or the kerb of a robbed cairn. Three contiguous stones on edge in the NE arc and the uneven interior suggest that it is possibly the latter.
Nothing is known locally about the flint arrow-heads found.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 10 May 1971.
