Shadylea
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Shadylea
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18956
Site Number NJ72SE 8
NGR NJ 7759 2357
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18956
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Keithhall And Kinkell
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SE 8 7759 2357
See also NJ72SE 7.
(NJ 7759 2357) Cairn (NR) (site of) Human Remains found.
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
This cairn contained about 40 cartloads of stones. Human skulls and bones were found when it was removed and the site is now only recognisable by a slight rise on the surface.
Name Book 1866.
There is no visible evidence of this cairn.
Visited by OS (RD) 6 March 1964.
Nothing is visible of this cairn, which stood in what is now a cultivated field about 230m SE of the house at Shadylea (NJ72SE 229).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 22 November 1996.
