Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667775

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ52NE 31 584 254

See also NJ52NE 77.

(Originally classified as fort). Discovered in the course of aerial survey work by Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys, consists today of a bank and internal quarry ditch surrounding the hilltop (altitude 285m) on three sides. On the S side no trace now remains due to ploughing associated with reseeding. The earthen bank measures between 4m and 5m wide, and is 0.5m high. It may be rock cut at the E end. The internal quarry ditch is between 3m and 4m wide and 0.4m deep. No entrance was detected. The fort measures 359m E-W by 175m transversely, making it one of the largest in the region, at over 4 hectares.

W Watt 1983.

Location cited as NJ 583 253 and classified as hill enclosure.

NMRS, MS/712/17.

Classified by GRC/AAS as (incomplete) hill fort. Threatened by (forestry) ploughing.

NMRS, MS/712/19.

(Classified as hill enclosure). Air photographs: AAS/94/11/G22/11-15.

NMRS, MS/712/21.

(Classified as hill enclosure). Air photographs: AAS/00/02/G3/3-8 and AAS/00/02/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/100.

Scheduled as 'Hill of Newleslie, hillfort, 400m N of Cotetown... a defended hilltop enclosure of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs, and as field remains.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 18 October 2006.