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Newbigging Ring Cairn Aberdeenshire

Submitted by Anonymous on Tuesday, 01 October 2002  Page Views: 7520

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Newbigging
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.2 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Aberdeenshire Type: Ring Cairn

Map Ref: NO541693  Landranger Map Number: 44
Latitude: 56.812931N  Longitude: 2.753419W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Destroyed Ring Cairn in Aberdeenshire

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NO5469 : Track near Newbigging by Scott Cormie
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NO5469 : Field on the slopes of the Hill of Formal by Oliver Dixon
by Oliver Dixon
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NO5468 : Newbigging Farm by Douglas Nelson
by Douglas Nelson
©2013(licence)
NO5469 : Farm road to Newbigging Farm by Steven Brown
by Steven Brown
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NO5468 : Farmland near Balfield by Steven Brown
by Steven Brown
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Re: Newbigging by golux on Tuesday, 23 April 2013
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This stone circle once stood surrounding a cairn at NO 5413 6934. Nothing now remains of the circle or the cairn.

"The site of a cairn, 40' in diameter, surrounded by a double circle 50' or 60' in diameter composed of 20 or 30 large stones of which only one remained in 1843.
The cairn, according to Ramsay who removed it, contained 400 cart-loads of stones, According to Jervise it was composed of small stones to a depth of 3' under which lay a quantity of black, clammy earth mixed with charcoal, while a 2' wide track of loose, red sandstone, a few inches deep, ran through this deposit to the outer circle on either side. The perimeter of the cairn was visible c 1861 as a slightly raised area and the sole survivor of the encircling stones stood 5'4" high and was 9' in circumference at the base, tapering to 6'3" at the top. Many flint arrowheads were found in the vicinity prior to 1853. In 1899 the blasted remains of the other stones were visible in the foundation of the neighbouring field dyke.
A Jervise 1853; Name Book c 1861; F Cruikshank 1899." [from RCAHMS]
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