Finzean

Nearest town:
Banchory (10km ENE)
OS reference:
NO59189378
OS sheets:
37, 44
Latitude:
57° 1' 59.98 N
Longitude:
2° 40' 21.47 W
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Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by thelonious

12/01/2019 – A fine walk today made better by a visit to this great cairn. It’s BIG.

thelonious
thelonious Jan 12, 2019
Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by GLADMAN

The rucksack [centre far end of cairn] provides some scale. Yeah, this is a magnificent long cairn.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 10, 2012
Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by GLADMAN

The light contrast was an amateur photographer’s nightmare.... but a stonehead’s dream.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 10, 2012
Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by GLADMAN

Enough to satisfy any Citizen Cairn’d, I’d have thought?

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 10, 2012
Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by GLADMAN

I would suggest this is one of the finest long cairns you’re likely to come across in a long time...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 10, 2012
Image of Finzean (Long Cairn) by GLADMAN

Approaching from the west (having taken the wrong track, of course).

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 10, 2012

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Finzean

drewbhoy
drewbhoy May 23, 2011

This type of post will drive the people who patch me up nuts but I wasn’t alone as the Mad Man Of Glass was allegedly making sure I didn’t get hurt. Keeping this in mind he decided that we should head west from Dardanus to Finzean Long Cairn. The conditions were perfect, it was getting dark, pouring with rain, underfoot was muddy therefore a drenching was assured. Perfect.

An almost 1/2 mile walk along the track, (take the first left) leads to a fantastic cairn. The forest feels very old with the rain and mist adding to the atmosphere. As we walked along two young deer sheltered under a tree (more sense than us) not moving as we passed by not more than 15 meters or so away. After a short climb the path turns north with the cairn straight in front.

It is wedge shaped being some 33 meters in length, 26 meters wide in the east, 9 meters wide in the west and some 3.5 meters in height. Various hollowed sections or wind breaks have been built into the cairn. This is an area with many huge cairns so plenty to see nearby. Even closer still is the supposed remains of another. That can wait till another drier day as we decided to go back to Dardanus.

Visited 21/05/2011.

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