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Auld Guid Wife's Cairn, Hill Of Aldie

Boundary Marker (Period Unassigned), Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Auld Guid Wife's Cairn, Hill Of Aldie

Classification Boundary Marker (Period Unassigned), Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 21036

Site Number NK04SE 15

NGR NK 0553 4169

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21036

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Cruden
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NK04SE 15 0553 4169

(NK 0553 4169) Auld Guid Wife's Cairn (NAT).

OS 6" map, (1959).

A cairn on the parish boundary said to mark the spot where an old woman who committed suicide is buried.

Name Book 1868.

No trace of this cairn remains, although the name is still known locally.

Visited by OS (RL), 24 May 1972.

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