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Smart's Cairn
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Smart's Cairn
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 36090
Site Number NO67NE 5
NGR NO 69369 77720
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fordoun
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67NE 5 6937 7772.
(NO 6937 7772) Smart's Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
A cairn 14ft in diameter and 3ft high, traditionally associated with the slaying of a huge serpent. (No explanation of the name is given.)
Name Book 1863.
This cairn, situated on the summit of a spur of Strathfinella Hill (355m OD), measures about 7.5m in diameter and 0.5m maximum height. Around the perimeter are about six intermittent earthfast stones, probably part of a kerb. The centre, of loose stones, has been disturbed. The name is still known.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (A A) 11 August 1971.
Field Visit (March 1982)
Smart's Cairn NO 693 777 NO67NE 5
This cairn is situated on the summit of Smart's Cairn Hill (355m OD) in a recent forestry plantation. It measures 7m in diameter within a boulder kerb, by 0.4m in height. Ploughing has disturbed the cairn on the S, and two marker-cairns have been built on the top, while a third lies 5m to the S.
RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982
