Crabs Cairn

Nearest town:
Aberdeen (3km WNW)
OS reference:
NJ963037
OS sheet:
38
Latitude:
57° 7' 27.27 N
Longitude:
2° 3' 40.02 W
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Image of Crabs Cairn (Cairn) by LesHamilton

Crab’s Cairn on Tullos Hill, viewed from the east. The structure of the cairn is now in full view, the surrounding gorse thickets now having been eradicated.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Apr 20, 2018
Image of Crabs Cairn (Cairn) by LesHamilton

Crab’s Cairn, viewed from the west, with the encompassing bracken removed.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Apr 20, 2018
Image of Crabs Cairn (Cairn) by LesHamilton

A view of Crab’s Cairn through the newly opened up clearing through the surrounding gorse.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton May 12, 2015
Image of Crabs Cairn (Cairn) by LesHamilton

This is a composite of six photographs, taken at close range, showing the summit of Crab’s Cairn as viewed from the north.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton May 12, 2015
Image of Crabs Cairn (Cairn) by fitzcoraldo

This boulder is close to Crab’s Cairn. It is about 3m x 2m x 1.5m and is shot through with quartz veins. It is also the only large boulder that I encountered on Tullos Hill.
Significant? who knows?

Girdle Ness lighthouse in the background

fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo May 3, 2009

Articles

Crabs Cairn

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Apr 20, 2018

Visited: April 20, 2018

Crabs Cairn Revealed

With summer in full flow I spent the morning enjoying a ramble round the Tullos Hill Cairns in Aberdeen. And I was delighted to note that major removal of gorse thickets had at last opened up Crab’s Cairn to view.

The offending undergrowth had been sawn off about 15 centimetres above ground level, and completely removed from the site. My only complaint is that the remaining stumps of the gorse bushes now represent a significant ‘trip hazard’ for the unwary.

Hopefully, further work to render this site visitor friendly will be undertaken before long.

Crabs Cairn

LesHamilton
LesHamilton May 12, 2015

Visited: May 12, 2015

Revealed at last!

After years of neglect, during which this Bronze Age Cairn on Aberdeen’s Tullos Hill lay almost totally hidden under a thick blanket of gorse, a pathway has at last been opened up to its grassy summit.

There’s still not a lot to see of this tumbledown cairn, but in early summer it opens up an amazing vista over swathes of yellow flowering gorse.

Crabs Cairn

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 14, 2010

From the Tullos cairn I headed back up the hill towards the fence and followed it to it’s end. This leads back to the main track. From here head east till the track a steel gate is reached.

This cairn was damaged during the war but it is still visible and stands at 11 meters wide and 1.1 meters tall. It is impossible to get close tho, as hard as tried I couldn’t break thru the jabby things. But at least it’s still here.

With that its a long walk back to the car via Cat Cairn 2. A chance to grab some foties in silence except for the constant hum of vuvu, sorry I mean traffic.

Visited 13/07/2010.

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