ABERDEEN'S Scottish heritage is one step further to being set in stone with Upper Hunter Shire Council deciding at their March meeting to donate up to $3500 to the building of a memorial cairn in the town.
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The money will be handed over to the Aberdeen Highland Games committee to help with the costs of construction of the cairn made of local rock with a plaque recording the area's history and connections with Scotland.
A cairn is a human-made pile or stack of stones. In Scottish heritage it plays a variety of purposes from marking a grave, to marking a successful reaching of a summit or as a sea marker to help mariners.
The proposed structure is estimated to cost a total of $6000 and will be located at Taylor Park standing at 1.5 metres high with a 1 metre base.
The Aberdeen Highland Games will be celebrating their 20th anniversary in July 2019, and to celebrate, they launched the Upper Hunter's very own registered tartan late last year.
Further to the launch, they decided the construction of a memorial cairn in recognition of the opening up and development of the Hunter region by the Scots, would be a fitting tribute.
