Binghill West

Nearest town:
Aberdeen (9km ENE)
OS reference:
NJ8552302325
OS sheet:
38
Latitude:
57° 6' 42.03 N
Longitude:
2° 14' 20.59 W
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Binghill West

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 11, 2011

Walk in a south westerly direction from the stone circle and this very rough cairn can be found. There has been a ‘Unexplained, Uneasy feeling’ forum and today was a good example. The rain had by-passed monsoon and the thunder and lightning led to some eerie moments. Every now and again the woods would light up to give a very uneasy feeling but that might have been because I was drenched and frozen.

The cairn is 8 meters north to south, 6 meters east to west and almost 2 meters high. Most of the cairn material is made up of large rocks with no kerb or ring.

Anyway I was soaked so I went to the eastern cairn. These cairns have caused no end of confusion even to Canmore, OS, Phillips and myself. (just ask the TMA Ed)

Visited 10/07/2011.

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Binghill West
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Rhiannon
Rhiannon Nov 27, 2009

Here’s something on Drewbhoy’s ‘little mentioned cairn’:

In one of the plantations on Binghill, there is a Druid’s temple enclosed with a common stone dike; and near to it is a large tumulus, which is said to have been once the burying-place of the family of Drum, a property in a neighbouring parish, where the descendants of that family now reside.

From the Peterculter chapter of the New Statistical Account.

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