Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666447

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ25NW 7 2300 5868.

(NJ 2300 5868) Culback Hillock (NAT)

OS 6" map, Elginshire, 1st ed., (1870)

A small hillock (Name Book 1870) - 'the supposed site of a Druidical place of worship' (H B Mackintosh 1924).

Fragments of a food vessel and bones were found scattered on the east side of Culback Hillock in 1864.

Name Book 1870; J G Phillips 1898; H B Mackintosh 1924.

Culback Hillock, a rise in a cultivated field, with no trace and no local knowledge of antiquity.

Visited by OS (R L) 15 April 1971.