Culbockhillock
Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Culbockhillock
Classification Food Vessel (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Culback Hillock
Canmore ID 16434
Site Number NJ25NW 7
NGR NJ 2300 5868
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16434
- Council Moray
- Parish Elgin
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ25NW 7 2300 5868.
(NJ 2300 5868) Culback Hillock (NAT)
OS 6" map, Elginshire, 1st ed., (1870)
A small hillock (Name Book 1870) - 'the supposed site of a Druidical place of worship' (H B Mackintosh 1924).
Fragments of a food vessel and bones were found scattered on the east side of Culback Hillock in 1864.
Name Book 1870; J G Phillips 1898; H B Mackintosh 1924.
Culback Hillock, a rise in a cultivated field, with no trace and no local knowledge of antiquity.
Visited by OS (R L) 15 April 1971.
