Knock Hill

NJ40SE 28.00 centred 451 034

NJ40SE 28.01 NJ 45409 03795 Hut Circle

See also NJ40SE 3, NJ40SE 66, NJ40SE 115, NJ40SE 117.

For cairns at NJ 4530 0376 and NJ 4529 0349, see NJ40SE 115 and NJ40SE 117 respectively.

(Area: NJ 451 034) There are 52 small cairns in the area between Knock Hill and the camp (NJ40SE 3)

A Ogston 1931.

At NJ 4539 0381 is a hut circle within an associated field system, at c.800ft OD, on an E slope.

The hut circle, defined by a turf-covered stony bank spread to c.3.0m wide, is set into the slope and measures c.13.5m SE - NW by c.12.0m NE-SW, with an entrance in the SE.

Two other possible hut circles occur at NJ 4533 0377 and NJ 4536 0381 and measure c.15.0m by c.13.5m, and c.11.0m by c.10.0m respectively, but they are too mutilated by forestry activities to be positively classified, appearing only as slight oval hollows.

The field system is defined mainly by clearance heaps and an occasional field wall, and occurs to the NE of the 52 "cairns" noted by Ogston. These latter are clearance heaps, some having been destroyed by afforestation, and most occur within a wide area of lazy bed cultivation centred at NJ 451 035 with which they may be associated. It is probable, however, that there are two periods of cultivation here, the clearance heaps marking an extension of the field system associated with the hut circle.

Hut Circle surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (A A) 14 November 1968.

(Location cited as NJ 4539 0381). Air photograph: AAS/88/13/K4/14.

Information from Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, June 1997.

NMRS, MS/712/19.

This group of monuments is situated in grassland on an E-facing shoulder at an altitude of 140m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/36.