Barmekin, a conical hill 800 feet high in the W of Echt parish, SE Aberdeenshire, entirely planted with Scotch fir, and crowned by remains of a prehistoric fortress, 6½ acres in extent, with 5 concentric ramparts, not so vast as, but better preserved than, those of the Caterthun. ` Druidical ' circles adjoin (vol. i., p. 85, of Hill Burton's Hist. Scot., ed. 1876).

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)