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Knock Hill

Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Knock Hill

Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Ferny Howe; Upper Ruthven; Knockargety

Canmore ID 17044

Site Number NJ40SE 44

NGR NJ 45104 03077

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Logie-coldstone
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ40SE 44 45104 03077

(NJ 4512 0306) Cairn or Redoubt

Information from A C O'Dell to OS, 1953.

570ft to the W of the 'camp' (NJ40SE 3) is a circular heap of stones, which has the appearance of having been a ring-shaped redoubt, or less probably a large cairn. It is 35 or 40ft diameter.

A Ogston 1931.

Conspicuously situated in a pasture field on a fairly level shoulder of Knockargety Hill, a flat topped, turf-covered mound of stone, c.16.0m diameter c.0.8m high. The margin is obscured by field clearance and a plough line and no kerb stones can be seen to enable positive classification, but it is probably a cairn.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 29 October 1968.

Scheduled as cairn.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 November 1999.

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