The Elsick Mounth is an ancient trackway crossing the Grampian Mountains in the vicinity of Netherley, Scotland. This trackway was one of the few means of traversing the Grampian Mounth area in prehistoric and medieval times.W. Douglas Simpson, Proceedings of the Society, published in the United Kingdom, 102, 10 December 1928 The highest pass of the route occurs within the Durris Forest.United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale, 2004 Notable historical structures in the vicinity are Maryculter House, Lairhillock Inn and Muchalls Castle. Most of the lands through which the Elsick Mounth passes are within the Durris Forest; this forest would have been a mixed deciduous forest in ancient times, but currently it is managed as a coniferous monoculture with extensive amounts of clearfelling and subsequent replanting.C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham
History Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp (now just south of Peterculter) as they sought higher ground so as to avoid the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march used the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Grampian Mountains, lying west of Netherley. To the north the Romans proceeded to the next camp at Ythan Wells.Temporary Roman Marching Camps: Ythan Wells Roman Camp
See also Drovers' road Meikle Carewe Hill
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External links Photograph of clearfelling along the Elsick Mounth, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Article on the Elsick Mounth in Leopard Magazine by Nate Pedersen and Neil Ramsay