Bucharn Cairn is a huge early Bronze Age or late Neolithic cairn on a terraced hillside site above the River Feugh. The cairn stretches 27 metres across, and up to 4.5 metres high.
The site on the edge of a terrace gives wide-ranging views over the river and across to the Forest of Birse.
The platform on which the cairn sits is not a natural feature but appears to have been formed by field clearance.
About 0.75 miles to the east is a second cairn of about the same size, and there is a much smaller cairn directly east with a dyke running through it.
The cairn stands about 300m north of the B976 immediately east of Croftfoddie.
There are a pair of stone circles about four miles away; Glassel Dam Wood and Nine Stanes Stone Circles.
About Bucharn Cairn
Address: Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Attraction Type: Prehistoric Site
Location: Three miles south-west of Banchory, off the B976 onto a minor road. Half mile walk past Bucharn steading to the cairn.
Website: Bucharn Cairn
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OS: NO659929
Opening Details: Open access site, usually accessible at any reasonable time
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NEARBY HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS
Heritage Rated from 1- 5 (low to exceptional) on historic interest
Banchory Museum - 2.8 miles (Museum) 
Falls of Feugh - 2.9 miles (Countryside) 
Crathes Castle - 4 miles (Historic House) 
Nine Stanes Stone Circle - 4.1 miles (Prehistoric Site) 
Glassel Dam Wood Stone Circle - 4.2 miles (Prehistoric Site)
Kincardine O'Neil Auld Kirk - 6 miles (Historic Church)
Cairn O'Mount - 7.7 miles (Prehistoric Site)
Peel Ring of Lumphanan - 8.4 miles (Castle)
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