Belliduff

Nearest town:
Alyth (6km WNW)
OS reference:
NO288442
OS sheet:
53
Latitude:
56° 35' 3.43 N
Longitude:
3° 9' 33.51 W
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Image of Belliduff (Cairn(s)) by drewbhoy

Looking north towards Meigle.

Image credit: drew/amj
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 4, 2015

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Belliduff

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jan 4, 2015

Leave Meigle heading south on the B954. There is a wall on the west side of the road just after the houses come to an end. Stop at the first gap in the wall. The cairn is a very short walk from the main road on the other side.

Yet another bit of the Macbeth saga is found. (how many times did this guy die ? :-) )

The cairn stands at 15 meters wide and is 1.5 meters. Cists have been opened here and their stones might be here but there is also a lot of field clearance. It is heavily overgrown with a walkers worst enemy, bramble bushes. Still its a nice site with the various vegetation giving some wonderful colour.

Visited 2/1/2015.

Folklore

Belliduff
Cairn(s)
Rhiannon
Rhiannon May 12, 2007

In the park of Belmont, there is a tumulus called “Belliduff,” which tradition gives as the spot where McDuff slew Macbeth; and about a mile distant, stands a large whinstone nodule, or block of twenty tons weight, called Macbeth’s stone. In all probability there has been fighting near these apparently sepulchral monuments; but it is more probable that Macbeth was slain at Lumphanan in the Mearns.

From p234 of ‘The New Statistical Account of Scotland’ v10 (Perth) 1845.

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