Buchaam is on the A97 south west of Glenkindie but befor the croosing of the Don. Head up the signposted track and go to the farmhouse to ask permission. This souterrain is in the garden.
Mr Ogg who runs the farm took time out from doing paperwork to give a history lesson. In 1895 the house was extended at both ends which led to the souterrain being terribly damaged. However they repaired it as best they could. In later years he asked permission to block the entrance as his children would have been endangered. The end nearest the house he covered until the children were well into their teens. I’ll stick up the Canmore notes which gives a fuller account.
To get into the souterrain is simple enough if you fancy crawling in on your stomach. Still, an excellent start to the day.
7/4/2011.
You might like this too Drew
books.google.co.uk/books?id=_jcGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA438
I was hoping for a bit of folklore for it (there's something fairly ghastly for the house but not for the souterrain, I guess because it was relatively recently found?)
Cheers Rhiannon, I think I will give you a few jobs in the folklore. You are brilliant btw!
Oh that's interesting so there's Buchaam, Milton of Migvie, Milton of Whitehouse and Culsh all quite close to each other. I might try to have a fogou day to visit them .. if the time is right I might even be successful. I've tried to visit Culsh twice already and never made it, in Cornwall several souterrains completely avoided me as well...
Plus a couple near Rhynie and at Newe
So the couple are I suppose Clove 1 and Clova 2. Wow there's loads.
I sense a fogou fiesta coming on! I swerved Buchaam today thinking it would be too wet but I did finally make it to Culsh, which was incredible :)
Since you'll hopefully see this Drew and it's souterrain related, what do you reckon is going on with this one - Boghead megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=6105 - says it's north of Turriff next to the Deveron but also talks about Fochabers!? Trove has it there as well - trove.scot/designation/SM5780
ah nevermind, there's a different boghead near fochabers as well - trove.scot/place/16878