Before the marsh, out of which it rises, was drained, the Herne Burn, for great part of the year, was a tiny rivulet; now, it scarcely amounts even to this. Its course is through a deep and narrow ravine, forming part of the boundary of the parishes of Turriff and
Inverkeithny, and of the shires of Aberdeen and Banff, — as well as of the district or thanedom of Buchan.
Ascending the ravine, and then holding in a direction ~ almost due south by the compass for about a quarter of a mile, and near the apex of the hill of Drachlaw, we
reach the Caerlin-ring, or, as it is locally termed, the Cairn-riv stone, which marks the boundary of the district at this point. This stone approaches in shape
to a triangular prism—its broadest side being about eight, and each of the other two sides about six feet, and its height upwards of eight feet.
It stands at a short distance from the public road from Turriff to Inverkeithny, on a piece of uncultivated ground on the Backhill of Drachlaw, being one of the stones of a large Druidical circle of about thirty-six yards in diameter.
It is placed in the south side of the circumference. From this point the boundary of the district runs in a southwesterly direction to the Hare-stone, on the farm of Feith-hill, about two miles and a half from Drachlaw.
This stone had also been part of-a Druidical circle, and is now nearly all that remains of it: it projects above ground about three feet. From the Hare-stone of Feithhill, the boundary proceeds in nearly the same southwesterly direction for about a mile, when it reaches the Woof, or Oof-stone, on the hill of Monduff, which indicates not only the limit of the district, but also that of the parishes of Forgue and Inverkeithny, the shires of Banff and Aberdeen, and the estates of Cluny, Gerriesford, and Drumblair, which all meet at this point.
p6 of ‘Buchan’ by John Pratt (1859) ia800906.us.archive.org/24/items/buchan00prat/buchan00prat.pdf