Historic Environment Scotland established the site as a scheduled monument in 1973.
Cairn Catto is located southeast of Longside, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The site is four miles north-west of Cruden Bay, to the west of the minor road between the A952 and the A950.
[3] The Arbuthnot Museum in Peterhead houses two stone axes that were found at Cairn Catto in 1885.
[4] Historic Environment Scotland established the site as a scheduled monument in 1973.