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Clune Wood, cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School is a prehistoric burial cairn located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Argyll Group, a sequence of metamorphic rocks—psammite, semipelite and pelite—formed during the Neoproterozoic era. These hard, compact stones would have provided a stable foundation and potentially a quarry for cairn construction by Bronze Age communities in this region.
The cairn represents an important element of the upland funerary landscape, typical of the second millennium BCE across north-east Scotland. Its position 900 metres south-east of Woodlands School places it within terrain that rises towards the Grampian moorlands, an environment suited to pastoral settlement and burial monuments. The monument survives as a substantial earthwork, preserving evidence of ancient burial practices in Kincardineshire.
The cairn is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4910, ensuring its preservation for future study. The site remains an accessible record of the Bronze Age communities who inhabited this part of Scotland, their choice of location reflecting both practical and symbolic considerations within the local landscape.
Clune Wood,cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4910. View the official record →
Clune Wood, cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School is a prehistoric burial cairn located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4910.
Clune Wood,cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4910.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cairn-mon-earn,cairn (3.3 km), Nether Auquhollie,inscribed stone 400m NW of (5.2 km), Campstone Hill,ring cairns,cairns and field systems (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Clune Wood,cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Clune Wood,cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.