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Souterrains
A souterrain is a grotto or cavern underground.
Culsh
The souterrain consists of a curved underground passage, with dry-stone wall (the mortar is recent) and stone slabs making the roof.
Note the stillness of the air and the evenness of the temperature inside, which suggests that the souterrain would have made an ideal storehouse.
In some instances traces of surface habitations of either timber or stone of broadly Iron Age date have been located near to the souterrains, but no such indications survive at Culsh.
Culsh Souterrain - 10th in a series of leaflets on the Archaeology of N E Scotland
Directions
- Grid ref: NJ 504 054 Ordnance Survey Landranger series sheet no. 37
4 ½ miles N of Aboyne. On A 974 c 2 miles NE of Tarland. Signposted. Souterrain lies between the farm buildings and the main road. A torch is required to see the interior of the site.
