- Cairnie Burn
Cairnie Burn is a stream that rises in the
Mounth , or eastern range of theGrampian Mountains , north ofNetherley, Aberdeenshire ,Scotland . [United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004] Cairnie Burn is a generally northeast flowing watercourse that is a tributary to theCrynoch Burn . Cairnie Burn rises in the eastern part of theDurris Forest , east of theElsick Mounth passage.History
Roman legion s marched fromRaedykes toNormandykes Roman Camp crossing Cairnie Burn in the Durris Forest as they sought higher ground evading thebog s ofRed Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with theBurn of Muchalls . That march used the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancienttrackway s crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains, [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan, "Elsick Mounth", Megalithic Portal, editor: Andy Burnham] ] lying west of Netherley.In poetry
An 1890 poem entitled "The Auld House O' Gask" by
Caroline Oliphant took note of Cairnie Burn: [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=yngAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA694&dq=%22cairnie+burn%22#PPA692,M1 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, v. 150, ed. T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1891, England] ] "that winds around the flowery bank of bonnie Cairnie Burn".ee also
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Muchalls Castle References
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