Cairnie Burn
| Cairnie Burn | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Grampian Mountains |
| Mouth | Crynoch Burn |
• location | Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
• coordinates | 57°03′06″N 2°15′02″W / 57.05156°N 2.25065°W |
Cairnie Burn is a stream that rises in the Mounth, or eastern range of the Grampian Mountains, north of Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.[1] Cairnie Burn is a generally northeast flowing watercourse that is a tributary to the Crynoch Burn. Cairnie Burn rises in the eastern part of the Durris Forest, east of the Elsick Mounth passage.
History
[edit]Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp crossing Cairnie Burn in the Durris Forest as they sought higher ground evading the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains,[2] lying west of Netherley.
In poetry
[edit]An 1890 poem entitled The Auld House O' Gask by Caroline Oliphant took note of Cairnie Burn:[3] "that winds around the flowery bank of bonnie Cairnie Burn".
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004
- ^ C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, editor: Andy Burnham
- ^ Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v. 150, ed. T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1891, England
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