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Round Cairns and Other Burial Mounds White Cow Wood
A kerb of boulders, 14.3 m in diameter, surrounded what was once a 3 m high cairn which was removed in carts through a gap in the S arc.
The tallest stones of the kerb are in the s arc. Inside this cairn there was a structure, originally consisting of 5 standing stones and a cover slab.
3 upright stones, 0.5m high, survive, defining a rectangular chamber.
Outside the kerb of boulders, on the E, is a bank of cairn material probably dumped during the removal of the cairn. The kerb of large, graded boulders suggests that this cairn may be a version of a Clava cairn, although the rectangular chamber is atypical.
- 10 miles S of Fraserburgh.
- Grid ref: NJ 947 51 - Ordnance Survey Landranger series sheet no. 30
Directions
10 miles S of Fraserburgh. On A 950, 3 miles W of Mintlaw, turn N onto minor road (to Strichen). In 1 ½ miles enter Forestry Commission car park. Cairn is in W side of wood, in a ridge c 1000 m from the picnic area. Signposted.
