Corsee Wood

Nearest town:
Banchory (1km ESE)
OS reference:
NO68319699
OS sheets:
38, 45
Latitude:
57° 3' 46.68 N
Longitude:
2° 31' 21.36 W
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Image of Corsee Wood (Stone Setting) by drewbhoy

Western side of the setting, with stones scattered on top of the mound.

Image credit: drew/amj
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 30, 2017

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Corsee Wood

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Feb 7, 2017

I parked at the Banchory Hospital, now almost completely flattened, and headed uphill on a path at the northern end of the car park. Follow the path uphill until the top of a small hillock can be seen a few metres to the north east of the track.

This stone setting could be an incomplete ring or kerb cairn or, a long shot, the beginnings of a RSC. The site is about 12m wide. Whatever it was it had views to the hills just to the south of the River Dee.

Several large stones make up a semi circle with some smaller stones creating a smaller inner circle. Both of these are set facing the south east.

These woods are full of prehistory, including the nearby cairn, sites at East Brathens and a long cairn which so far has eluded me.

Visited 17/1/2017.

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