Loedebest Wood

Nearest town:
Wick (29km NE)
OS reference:
ND13943171
OS sheets:
11, 17
Latitude:
58° 15' 56.78 N
Longitude:
3° 28' 1.37 W
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Image of Loedebest Wood (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

The trekking pole provides a little scale.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 11, 2016
Image of Loedebest Wood (Round Cairn) by GLADMAN

A small cairn, but well formed and sited above some excellent river scenery

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 11, 2016

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Loedebest Wood
Round Cairn
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jan 20, 2018

This cairn (or cairns?) lies to the immediate left of the stony track from Dunbeath when approaching the buildings at Loedebest... and is therefore a ‘bonus site’ for travellers seeking a personal audience with the great chambered cairns upon/around Cnoc Na Maranaich. The situation is fine, overlooking the deep defile of Dunbeath Water, so well worth tarrying a short while.

To be honest I only positively identified one cairn here, which did not appear to have any internal structure... at least nothing surviving in situ. Consequently the following Canmore record is intriguing:

“A: At ND 1394 3171 is a small cairn, some 5.0m in diameter and 0.6m high. A cist formed by three stone slabs is exposed in the centre.
B: At ND 1397 3174, cut by the road, a circular, turf-covered mound, approximately 13.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, composed of stone, is possibly a cairn. OS (R L) 14/3/68.

Cairn ‘A’ is as described. The cist is exposed to 0.9m long E-W by 0.4m wide and 0.2m deep. The cairn has an edging slab in the N. Mound ‘B’ is also as described. It is unquestionably a cairn.” OS (J M) 17/8/82.

In retrospect the cairn images I’ve posted perhaps represent ‘Cairn B’. But what of the other?

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