Court Hill, Rosemarkie
Moot Hill (Medieval)(Possible), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Court Hill, Rosemarkie
Classification Moot Hill (Medieval)(Possible), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Courthill
Canmore ID 14326
Site Number NH75NW 10
NGR NH 7356 5762
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14326
- Council Highland
- Parish Rosemarkie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH75NW 10 7356 5762
(NH 7357 5762) Court Hill (NR)
OS 25" map, Ross-shire, (1906)
See also NH75NW 7.
Court Hill was an apparently artificial mound of nearly a circular form, and level on the top (NSA 1845) - which description suggested a motte to Armitage (1912). The mound has been partially defaced by building.
NSA 1845; E S Armitage 1912.
Court Hill, possibly an artificial mound on the W side of a steep slope is so mutilated by building and landscape gardening that its original shape and purpose cannot be ascertained. Meldrum (E Meldrum, County Architect's Office, Inverness) does not think that this is a motte; it is more probably where the manor courts were held (See NH75NW 7). Visited by OS (NKB) 16 March 1966.
Field Visit (June 1979)
Rosemarkie NH 737 576 NH75NW 10
Rosemarkie probably attained the status of a royal burgh in the 13th century, but the earliest documentary evidence dates from 1455, when the burgh of Fortrose was annexed. Nothing can now be seen of what may have been a motte at Courthill (NH 735 576).
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1979
NSA, xiv (Ross and Cromarty), 353-4; Armitage 1912, 322; Pryde 1965, 28-30, no. 64; 41, no. 98
