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Little Hill
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Little Hill
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) The Knock Beg Ring; Little Hill Of Tillfoudie
Canmore ID 17511
Site Number NJ50SW 2
NGR NJ 5450 0114
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17511
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Aboyne And Glentanar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ50SW 2 5450 0114
(NJ 5452 0117) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959).
See also NJ50SW 22.
On the Little Hill of Tillfoudie are the remains of a circular structure, 83 feet in diameter, composed of stones without mortar.
About 1/2 mile to the north-east in a cornfield may be traced the site of a similar structure whilst between the two are two parallel dykes forming a 'roadway'. This leads eastwards to the moor of Drumduan and W to Kinard. [For these monuments, see NJ50SW 22].
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
The Knock Beg ring measures 105 feet E-W with irregularly laid stones.
A series of fairly straight walls of prehistoric type run downhill towards the east, the most northerly pair of which form a hollow way.
A Ogston 1931.
An enclosure approximately 27.0m in diameter lies on a level shelf in the east slope of Little Hill at NJ 5450 0114. It is bounded by the remains of a stone wall (incorporating several large boulders) in which a gap of c. 3.0m in the east arc may have been an entrance. A depression 1.2 to 2.7m and 0.3m to 0.8m deep encircles the wall on the outside but is probably the results of tentative excavation rather than a ditch.
The enclosure is not defensive and, in the absence of any ancient field system in the area, is probably to be associated with the remains of comparatively recent buildings near the foot of the slope, as too are the walls described by Ogston (1931).
There is no trace of a similar feature to the NE, or the connecting "roadway".
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 25 October 1968.
