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Mormond Hill White Horse

Near Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire

Scotland's only white horse, made of white quartz stones.

Scotland has no chalk hills, so the white horse on Mormond Hill was made from white quartz stones laid in the turf. It is said to have been made around 1700 in memory of an officer whose horse was killed under him in battle.

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When
Cut c.1700
Where
57.6000, -2.0300
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Visible from the A90 and the roads around Strichen.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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