White Cow Wood

Nearest town:
Rosehearty (15km NNW)
OS reference:
NJ947519
OS sheet:
30
Latitude:
57° 33' 26.05 N
Longitude:
2° 5' 18.9 W
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Image of White Cow Wood (Chambered Cairn) by costaexpress

Although a jumble of a site it is simply beautiful. Wonderful setting in a forest clearance, quiet, peaceful and pure joy

costaexpress
costaexpress Jul 22, 2021

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White Cow Wood

drewbhoy
drewbhoy May 12, 2009

This is a beautiful site tragically vandalised in 1988. The local authorities did their best and restored it as best they could. It is quite difficult to find as some map directions and local signposts aren’t very accurate. I managed to find it with the guidance of Julie Perkins, who unwittingly found it by sitting on it . Glad to say no damage was done! Only marginally easier to find than Louden Wood. There is car parking.

Visited 8/9/08

White Cow Wood

greywether
greywether Dec 7, 2003

By a forest walk with parking.

Ring cairn 14.3m in diameter surrounding unusual setting of three standing stones and a slab. The latter was examined following damage in 1988 but no definitive burial evidence was found.

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White Cow Wood
Chambered Cairn
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Apr 8, 2009

In ‘Report on Stone Circles of the North-East of Scotland’ in PSAS v38 (1904) the author talks of this circle, but also mentions a stone elsewhere called the ‘White Cow of Crichie’ –

In the Buchan, this curious appellation is frequently given to great stones, presumably, as this one, of white quartz.

Are these the white cows? like the bovine equivalent of the ‘grey wethers’ of Wiltshire?

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