Elsick Mounth

Elsick Mounth

The Elsick Mounth is an ancient trackway crossing the Grampian Mountains in the vicinity of Netherley, Scotland. This trackway was one of the few means of traversing the Grampian Mounth area in prehistoric and medieval times. [W. Douglas Simpson, "Proceeedings of the Society", published in the United Kingdom, 102, December 10, 1928] The highest pass of the route is attained within the Durris Forest. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004] Notable historical structures in the vicinity are Maryculter House, Lairhillock Inn and Muchalls Castle. Most of the lands through which the Elsick Mounth passes are within the Durris Forest; while this forest would have been a mixed deciduous forest in ancient times, currently it is managed as a coniferous monoculture with extensive amounts of clearfelling. [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan, "Elsick Mounth", Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham] ]

History

Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp at the south of Peterculter 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 Grampian Mountains, [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan, "Elsick Mounth", Megalithic Portal, ed A. Burnham] ] lying west of Netherley. To the north the Romans proceeded to the next camp at Ythan Wells. [ [http://www.roman-britain.org/places/glenmailen.htm Temporary Roman Marching Camps: Ythan Wells Roman Camp] ]

ee also

* Drovers' road
* Meikle Carewe Hill

References

External links

* [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/598046 Photograph of clearfelling along the Elsick Mounth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Mounth — The Mounth is the range of hills on the southern edge of Strathdee in northeast Scotland. It was usually referred to with the article, i.e. the Mounth . The name is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic monadh which in turn is akin to the Welsh… …   Wikipedia

  • Elsick House — is an historic house in Kincardineshire, (now part of Aberdeenshire), northeast Scotland. The house is situated in an agricultural area about two miles from the North Sea near the town of Cammachmore; moreover, the Elsick Estate is situated… …   Wikipedia

  • Causey Mounth — The Causey Mounth is an ancient drovers road over the coastal fringe of the Grampian Mountains in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This route was developed as the main highway between Stonehaven and Aberdeen around the 12th century AD and it continued to …   Wikipedia

  • Cairn O' Mounth — Cairn O Mounth/Cairn O Mount ( gd. Càrn Mhon) is a high mountain pass in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Skene, 1867] The place name is a survival of the ancient name for what are now the Grampian Mountains, earlier called the Mounth (in Gaelic: monadh …   Wikipedia

  • Burn of Elsick — The Burn of Elsick is a coastal stream in Aberdeenshire, Scotland that discharges to the North Sea. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004] This watercourse drains primarily agricultural… …   Wikipedia

  • Drum Castle — Location of Drum Castle within Aberdeenshire. Drum Castle is a castle near Drumoak …   Wikipedia

  • Cairnie Burn — is a stream that rises in the Mounth, or eastern range of the Grampian Mountains, north of Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004] Cairnie Burn is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Durris Forest — is a chiefly coniferous forest south of the River Dee approximately three kilometres west of Netherley in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.[1] (Ordnance Survey, 2004) The A957 road forms the southwest boundary of Durris Forest, separating it from… …   Wikipedia

  • Maryculter — Kirkton of Maryculter Church Maryculter (  listen ( …   Wikipedia

  • Borrowfield — is a settlement in Aberdeenshire, Scotland in proximity to Netherley. [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004] HistoryRoman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp through… …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”