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Culbockhillock

Food Vessel

Site Name Culbockhillock

Classification Food Vessel

Alternative Name(s) Culback Hillock

Canmore ID 16434

Site Number NJ25NW 7

NGR NJ 2300 5868

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Elgin
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

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