Hare Cairn

Also known as:
Bractullo Muir, Haercairns and Hoar Cairn
Nearest town:
Monifieth (9km SSE)
OS reference:
NO48244148
OS sheet:
54
Latitude:
56° 33' 44.63 N
Longitude:
2° 50' 32.21 W
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Image of Hare Cairn (Cairn) by drewbhoy

As well as been battered and houked a fence goes thru the middle.

Image credit: drew/TMP
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Dec 31, 2014

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Hare Cairn

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Dec 31, 2014

From Labothie head towards the fence and promptly walk west. This takes you the remnants of a badly disturbed cairn. It has been houked and battered. To add to it’s misery a fence goes straight thru the middle of it.

Still it must have been massive in its day. Today it stands at 25 meters wide and 1 meter tall. Scattered stones might be kerbs then again they might not.

Visited 30/12/2014.

Folklore

Hare Cairn
Cairn(s)
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Feb 24, 2012

A little to the west of Hynd Castle, on the ridge which divides this parish from Inverarity, there was a very large heap of stones, called Haercairns or Hoar Cairn, which probably were raised over the bodies of the combatants slain at a great battle fought there in very early times, but of the time, the parties engaged, or the result we are ignorant. Many of the stones have been carted off. Locally it is said to have been the burial place of all the suicides of the district. The Gallows Hill is in the immediate vicinity, and the criminals executed may have been buried there. Many human bones have been found under the stones.

From ‘Angus or Forfarshire, the land and people’ v4, by A J Warden (1884).

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