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Stot Hill
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stot Hill
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Stor Hill; Stothill Wood
Canmore ID 17490
Site Number NJ50SE 13
NGR NJ 5937 0318
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17490
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Lumphanan
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ50SE 13 5937 0318
(Location cited as NJ 5937 0318). 'Large stone-walled enclosure with possible outer wall.'
Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys 1979.
Old Cattle Fold [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1980.
Name cited as Stor Hill and location as NJ 593 032.
NMRS, MS/712/17.
(Location cited as NJ 5937 0318). An oval stone-walled enclosure has been recorded in an area of rough grazing at an altitude of 280m OD on the summit of Stot Hill, where it is threatened by forestry. The main wall is relatively complete, measures about 3.5m in thickness, encloses an area measuring 60m long by about 40m broad and has been adapted to form an animal enclosure of comparatively recent date. There is a possible outer wall. (GRC/AAS air and ground photographic imagery summarised).
Visited by GRC/AAS (IBM Ralston and J Bone), May 1978.
NMRS, MS/712/19.
Note (10 April 2015 - 31 May 2016)
This fortified enclosure is situated on the E end of the broad summit of Stot Hill. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 45m from ENE to WSW by 30m transversely (0.13ha) within a wall some 3.5m in thickness. The wall had been adapted to form a cattle fold before the hill was planted with the trees that appear here on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map, which also notes the discovery in 1855 of a cist in the E end of the interior (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet 83.1; Name Book, Aberdeenshire No.59, p 61). A possible outer wall was noted when it was visited in 1978.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2947
