Bruce's Howe
Earthwork(S) (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Bruce's Howe
Classification Earthwork(S) (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Cot Hill
Canmore ID 17746
Site Number NJ53NW 11
NGR NJ 5482 3705
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17746
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Gartly
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ53NW 11 5482 3705
(NJ 5479 3701) Bruce's Howe (NAT) Earthworks (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928)
"Bruce's Howe, Entrenchments (Site of): A name applied to faint traces of an artificial hollow, situated on the north-east side of Cot Hill, from 30 to 40 links wide. There are traces of other similar entrenchments on Cot Hill. Tradition records it to have been excavated by Robert Bruce's army, about the year 1300 or 1400."
Name Book 1871.
"Nothing seen from road to NE except possibly an old enclosure-bank".
OS 6" map annotated by OGS Crawford, n.d. A.O.
There are no traces of earthworks or hollows on Cot Hill, which is covered with gorse and whin.
Visited by OS (EGC) 20 September 1961.
