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DEN OF BODDAM Den of Boddam
Den of Boddam
Den of Boddam
Mr. A Bruce Denend
Mr. W. Bruce Sandfordhill
Rev [reverend John B. Pratt M.A. Master of Arts]
032 Extract from the Rev [Reverend] J.B. Pratt's Buchan page 78.
Returning from Cairn Catta, in direction of the Buchanness Lighthouse, we reached the Den of Boddam, which runs along the western base of the Sterling Hill and, passing the Carding Mill, terminates in the immediate vicinity of Sandford Lodge. This is a remarkably barren and solitary glen, with scarcely a blade of grass to cover the naked soil. The Den is traversed by a small stream, the waters of which have been husbanded by means of a barrier built across the glen, forming a pond of considerable extent. Twice within the last twenty years, this embankment has given way, the water doing great damage by its impetuous outbreak.
Site of Supposed CIRCLES [Den of Boddam] Pictish Camp

Pictish Camp
Rev [Reverend] John B. Pratt M.A. [Master of Arts]
Mr. J. Rennie Denhead
032 We find the following description of this Camp in the Rev [reverend] John B. Pratts Buchan p.p. 78, 79 & 80.
Along the sides of the glen are a number of excavations, of different sizes, large enough to contain from four to eight persons. These tradition says, were the houses of the Picts or Peights. But considering their obscure and inaccessible position, we should rather incline to the opinion of their being places of concealment, probably for the [continued on next page]

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