Round Cairns and Other Burial Mounds

During the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, a large number of, usually circular, burial mounds were erected in prominent locations to intern important members of the community. The rites of inhumation (in short, stone-lined cist graves), and cremation (in large pottery urns), were practised.

View Short Cist Burial with Beaker which was discovered during housebuilding in Aberdeenshire

Cairns

Bucharn

The Bucharn Cairn is massive round cairn of bare stones and is spectacularly sited at the edge of a hill terrace with wide views across the River Feugh and up into the Forest of Birse.

Cairn O'Mount

This fine hilltop cairn is 15.5 m in diameter and 3.5 m high. It is typical of several skyline cairns which have been added to and altered by generations of travellers. Read more about Cairn O'Mount

Cowiemuir

The Cowiemuir cairn is 21 m in diameter and 0.6 m high

Logie Newton

The three small, unearthly, rings of quartzite blocks that glisten in the sleet and sparkle in the sun high on the south facing shoulder of Kirk Hill represent two trends in the burial and ritual monuments of the North-east that run back over 1500 years. Find out more about Logie Newton

Memsie

The sole remaining example of a cemetery of 3 cairns which occupied this broad open ridge. Memsie cairn details

White Cow Wood

A kerb of boulders surrounding what was once a 3 m high cairn. White Cow Wood cairn details

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