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Colpy

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Colpy

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 18277

Site Number NJ63SW 14

NGR NJ 6407 3259

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Culsalmond
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ63SW 14 6407 3259.

(NJ 6407 3259) Cairn (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A cairn, 7 feet high and 10 feet in diameter (sic), stood here until it was removed some years ago to build dykes. (? one of two stones circles on Colpy Farm - see NJ63SW 1).

Name Book 1867.

No further information.

Visited by OS (NKB) 24 February 1969.

Nothing is visible of this cairn and its site lies in what is now cultivated ground 190m SE of Colpy farmsteading (NJ63SW 81.00).

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 13 June 1996.

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