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Rough's Cairn is a consumption dyke located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Consumption dykes are linear earthworks constructed primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as field boundaries and drainage management systems on marginal agricultural land. The site represents a practical response to land use intensification during the agricultural improvement period in north-east Scotland. These dykes typically incorporated stones cleared from cultivation and served both to demarcate property and to manage water drainage across moorland and improved pasture.
Rough's Cairn, consumption dykes is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM43. View the official record →
Rough's Cairn is a consumption dyke located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM43.
Rough's Cairn, consumption dykes 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 SM43.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kingswells, consumption dykes 415m N and 685m NNE of Home Farm (1.9 km), West Hatton Croft, long cairn 155m WNW of (2.5 km), Cup and ring marked boulder, 40m S of Treetops House (3.8 km).
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