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Garlogie Wood
Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Garlogie Wood
Classification Cairn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18520
Site Number NJ70NE 7.35
NGR NJ 79 05
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Skene
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ70NE 7.35 79 05.
(NJ 792 056) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
In a clearing of the plantation in the area there are nineteen cairns probably field clearance heaps, average height 0.7 metres and diameter 4.0 to 5.0 metres. There were possibly more in the wood but these have been destroyed by afforestation. They are probably associated with the hut circle and enclosures centred at NJ 790 057 (Sites in Garlogie Wood are described on NJ70NE 7.01 to 7.36.)
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 14 January 1965.
Cairns occur in numbers throughout the southern two-thirds of the survey area. In all, 182 caims were individually surveyed. Further cairns, which were not individually surveyed, occur within the area between an east-west forestry track and the dotted line on Figure 2 in the northem part of the survey area [see MS] (or between points at NJ 7893 0620 and NJ 7926 0618).
In terms of form and size, the variety of the cairns is considerable. Some are low, amorphous and poorly defined stone spreads, no more than 1.5 m wide and 0.3 m high, sealed by a mossy turf. Others are large, domed features, up to 8 m wide and 1.7 m high, and supporting several mature pine trees. The average cairn is probably over 3 m wide and roughly 1 m high.
There are two notable anomalies in the distribution of the cairns: a) They are absent from areas of northern aspect and b) they do not occur in numbers within the early enclosures. It is suggested that by the time cairns were being erected elsewhere in the survey area, field clearance had already been carried out within the enclosures - in an earlier period - and had been expressed by the erection of the enclosing banks themselves.
The cairns are of uncertain date and may represent more than one period.
Most of the caims are prominent and well-defined, though a very large number - perhaps the majority - have been favoured as planting sites and
support mature pine trees. Funerary as well as clearance cairns may be present.
Surveyed by AOC (Scotland) Ltd in advance of proposed forestry thinning.
O'Sullivan 1994a; NMRS MS/738/8.
