Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708319

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS97NE 4 9575 7565.

(NS 9575 7565) Indeterminate Site, Castlehill: A natural mound, 230 yds S of Compston, measures 200' WNW-ESE by 150', and rises to a height of 15'. Its top is cut by a broad, shallow trench, of no great age and about 70' in length; immediately beyond the SW end of this there is a terrace which appears to have been formed as a spoil-heap from the cutting. No other recognisable traces of artificial work appear, but "an old fortification...called Castlehill near to the house of Compstone, where there are a great many vaults" is noted in 1723 (c/f NS97NE 22).

Visited by OS (JLD) 20 December 1953

W Macfarlane 1906; RCAHMS 1963, visited 1953