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Snub Point

Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Site Name Snub Point

Classification Hut Circle (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Tore Of Troup

Canmore ID 157949

Site Number NJ86SW 40

NGR NJ 8265 6113

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Gamrie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Banffshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ86SW 40 8265 6113

(Location cited as NJ 8265 6113 and name as Snub Point, Tore of Troup). Air photography (AAS/00/03/G9/7-9 and AAS/00/03/CT/106-9, flown 3 February 2000) has recorded the remains of a hut-circle surviving as a low grass-covered circular feature on a promontory above the Tore of Troup at an altitude of 175m OD. Some stone is showing through the grass.

NMRS, MS/712/92.

NJ 826 611 Remains of hut circle survive as low grass-covered circular feature on promontory above the Tore.

M Greig 2000.

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