Hill Of Rowan
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hill Of Rowan
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 155509
Site Number NO47NE 19
NGR NO 480 790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/155509
- Council Angus
- Parish Lochlee
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO47NE 19 480 790
NO 480 790 The southern flank of the Hill of Rowan in Glen Esk was surveyed during Easter 1999. The survey comprised geomorphic mapping followed by limited coring and test pitting. A large hollow downslope of prehistoric field systems revealed a 2.5m deep sequence of peat and organic silts which contains a detailed palaeoenvironmental record for at least the second half of the Holocene. Numerous inwash bands seem to correlate to pedologic instability triggered by prehistoric activity. A core has been taken with a view to constructing a palaeoenvironmental record for the upper reaches of the North Esk Valley.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh.
M Church and G Coles 1999
