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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668312
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668312
NJ56SW 18 5095 6277.
(NJ 5095 6277) Ha' Hillock (NR)
OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)
The Ha-Hill of Deskford is an ancient rath. It is 20ft high, with regular sloping sides, and a flat elliptical top about 30ft by 18ft. It is surrounded at the base by a ditch, part of which is formed by the burn that runs past it. There is an entrance over the ditch.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; J Spence 1892.
A tree-covered motte situated on the W edge of a steep-sided gulley of Ha' Burn and protected on the landward side by a broad ditch. The mound described above was probably circular measuring c.28.0m diameter originally, but is now spread on the E side probably by landslip. The entrance over a causeway, is in the NNW.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 September 1961.
