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Mounth
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The Mounth is the range of hills on the southern edge of Strathdee in northeast Scotland. It was usually referred to with the article, i.e. "the Mounth". The name is a corruption of the Scottish Gaelic monadh which in turn is akin to the Welsh mynydd, and may be of Pictish origin. Traditionally the people of northern Scotland did not consider the Grampians to be a single range, but several, and these were known as the Mounth or the Mounths. Mountain ranges to the west are known as Monadh Liath and the Monadh Ruadh, which could be glossed as the Grey Mounth and the Red Mounth.
The hills of the Mounth form an outlying ridge of the Grampians stretching from Ballater in the west to the east coast just north of Stonehaven. Historically they formed a formidable barrier which, to some extent, isolated the north east of Scotland from the rest of the Scottish Lowlands, physically and culturally. In the Middle Ages an ancient roadway known as the Causey Mounth was built to connect Stonehaven to Aberdeen using an elevated rock causeway design to penetrate this boggy area of the eastern Mounth[1]. This route was by way of Cowie Castle, Muchalls Castle, Portlethen Moss and the Bridge of Dee. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquis of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639[2].
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