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Woodside Cottage
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cup(S) (Stone)
Site Name Woodside Cottage
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cup(S) (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Whiteside Croft; Hill Of Skares; Woodside
Canmore ID 18273
Site Number NJ63SW 10
NGR NJ 6396 3347
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18273
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Culsalmond
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ63SW 10 6396 3347.
(NJ 6396 3347) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
In 1860, the stones were removed from this cairn revealing what appeared to be a cist containing red and white ashes. Also found were two stones, 18 inches by 12 inches with hollowed centres apparently caused by sharpening iron tools upon them.
Callander (1916), referring specifically to this cairn, states that there were no sepulchral remains, but three stone cups were found, one of which is in the National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland (NMAS).
Name Book 1867; J G Callander 1916.
No trace and no further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 13 March 1969.
(Name cited as Woodside).
NMRS, MS/712/62.
Nothing is now visible of this cairn. Its site lies in a conifer plantation 80m W of Woodside Cottage. A long-handled steatite cup or ladle in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen (ABDUA: 17409) may have been found in the cairn. Two other stone cups were recovered from the cairn, of which one decorated example is in the Royal Museum of Scotland (AQ 119), and the other is lost.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 14 June 1996.
I [B M] Ralston and J Inglis 1984.
