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Photo title: A Seascape of Buchan Ness Coast, Boddan,Aberdeenshire,Scotland,UK
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A seascape Buchan Ness Coast, Boddan,, Aberdeenshire Sotland,UK Boddam is a coastal village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is 29 miles 47 km north of Aberdeen and 3 miles 4.8 km south of Peterhead. The settlement of Stirling Village lies immediately to the west. Sea cliffs rise to 200 feet 61 m, south of the village: a coastal path leads along these to the Bullers of Buchan. There is vicinity evidence of prehistoric man, particularly slightly to the southwest of Boddam where a number of prehistoric monuments including Catto Long Barrow, Silver Cairn and many tumuli are found. In that same vicinity of the Laeca Burn watershed is the point d`appui of historic battles between invading Danes and indigenous Picts. Boddam Castle was built in the late 16th century by the Ludquharn branch of the Keith family, whose other strongholds in the area are at Inverugie Castle and Ravenscraig Castle, west of Peterhead. Sir William Keith, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Delaware, was born here in 1669. During the First World War about a hundred German prisoners were sent from Stobs Camp to work in the granite quarries nearby.