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Causey Mounth

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What is recorded here

Causey Mounth is a medieval road built as a raised stone causeway across boggy ground between Stonehaven and Aberdeen. It carried merchants, royal travellers and armies, including Covenanter forces moving south in 1639. Later roads replaced much of it, but paved stretches, banks and footpath lines preserve a route…

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Causey Mounth is a medieval road built as a raised stone causeway across boggy ground between Stonehaven and Aberdeen. It carried merchants, royal travellers and armies, including Covenanter forces moving south in 1639. Later roads replaced much of it, but paved stretches, banks and footpath lines preserve a route that governed travel along the north-east coast for centuries.

What this place is

Causey Mounth is the surviving line of a medieval raised road, now divided among paved tracks, paths, fields and lost sections.

People and events

Road builders crossed wet ground with stone, travellers used it for centuries and Covenanter troops marched along the route in 1639.

How it was used

The elevated surface carried horses, carts, goods, officials and armies between the coastal burghs before improved roads bypassed it.

What survives

Paved lengths, raised banks, hollow ways, bridges and mapped footpath sections preserve parts of the old alignment.

Why it mattered

Causey Mounth mattered because a single engineered road connected trade and government across difficult country before the modern road network.

Sources for this account

Sources checked 16 August 2026.

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  • Anne Burgess, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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