Blackhill Wood
Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Blackhill Wood
Classification Long Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 36587
Site Number NO78SE 19
NGR NO 79624 81771
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36587
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Glenbervie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
Field Visit (April 1981)
Blackhill Wood NO 796 817 NO78SE 19
This long cairn is situated on the crest of a low rise immediately S of the public road and E of the NE corner of Blackhill Wood. It measures 47.6m in length, and tapers from 16.2m in breadth at the E end to about 4.8m at the W end; the central portion has been severely robbed, but at the E end the cairn material survives to a height of 1.2m. The W end of the cairn is apparently overlain by a round cairn (8.5m in diameter by 0.4m in height), and along the S side there are a series of irregular heaps of what are probably field-cleared stones. About 30m ENE of the E end there is at least one small cairn (4.5m in diameter by 0.4m in height).
RCAHMS 1982, visited April 1981
