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Round Cairns and Other Burial Mounds Logie Newton
There are few kerb cairns so striking or so dramatically unreal as this Buchan Group.
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.
The first, seen here in the diameters of the rings of between 6 and 7 m, is the gradual reduction in the size of the feature (compare the great single ring cairn at Loanhead 13).
The second is the use of quartzite, a notable characteristic of the earlier recumbent stone circles and Clava Cairns, at Logie Newton translated into hefty blocks up to 1.3 m in length.
Kerb cairns are often found in groups, as here, and their kerbstones are frequently disproportionately large when compared with the flat interiors of the cairns.
There are few, however, so striking or so dramatically unreal as this Buchan Group.
Directions
- 8 miles E of Huntly
- Grid ref: NJ 659 391 - Ordnance Survey Landranger Series sheet no.29
8 miles E of Huntly; on side road between B9001 and Wells of Ythan. Walk up hill for c 1/2 mile, along field boundaries from Logie Newton Farm.
