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16 Davidsons Cairn
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16 Davidsons Cairn

24.06.10
Davidson's Cairn, Creagandubh.
Inscribed A.DAVIDSON 1792-1843, it marks the site where a local poacher was found dead of natural causes.

See entry for details of Sandy Davidson

Site Type COMMEMORATIVE CAIRN
County ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish GLENBUCHAT
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
NGR NJ 3641 1970
Latitude, Longitude 57.263517N, 3.055883W
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Archaeological Notes
NJ31NE 72 3641 1970

Davidson's Cairn [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1975.

Davidson's Cairn. A small cairn marking the spot where Davidson, a poacher, was found dead of natural causes.
Name Book, 1866.

Davidson's Cairn is a small cairn of white quartz boulders, within which has been set a granite boulder bearing the inscription 'A DAVIDSON 1792 - 1843'.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 21 October 1997.





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