Archaeology Notes

Event ID 683168

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/683168

NO14NE 3 1785 4542

(NO 1785 4542) Mote Hill {NR}

OS 6" map, Perthshire, (1938)

The circular mound consists of strata of earth and gravel and is surrounded on the top with a dyke of the same materials.

OSA 1796 (J Johnston)

Near the manse there formerly existed a green conical mount, about 200 yards in circumference, called the Hurcheon or Urchin Hill, where baronial courts were held traditionally.

"Some years ago" the whole mound was removed.

In 1838, when digging foundations for a new wing to the manse, there was discovered, in the centre of the space formerly occupied by the mound, a circular excavation, 3 feet in diameter by 6 feet in depth which had been filled in with black unctuous mould, intermixed with ashes and charred wood.

NSA 1845 (footnote by R M'Donald)

The new wing added to the manse in 1838 was the "backwing or kitchen".

Name Book 1863

No trace of the mound was seen. The back wing of the manse (Name Book 1863) is at NO 1785 4544.

Visited by OS (RDL) 21 March 1963