Hillhead
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hillhead
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 18019
Site Number NJ60SW 11
NGR NJ 6006 0499
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18019
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Lumphanan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ60SW 11 6006 0499.
At NJ 6006 0499, c. 900ft OD, there is a ring enclosure or possible cremation cemetery set into a gentle SW slope. It measures 19.5m in diameter and is defined by a turf and whin covered bank of earth and stones, 3.0m wide and c. 0.3m high. Protruding through this stony bank at fairly regular intervals of about 4.0 to 5.0m there are large boulders up to 0.6m high. No trace of an entrance.
Some 90.0m to the SE are one proven, and 2 possible Bronze Age cairns. (See NJ60SW 2).
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 7 February 1968.
