Husband Hillock
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Husband Hillock
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchleven; Wellside
Canmore ID 18201
Site Number NJ62SW 2
NGR NJ 6206 2454
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18201
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Premnay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ62SW 2 6206 2454.
(NJ 6206 2454) Site of Stone Circle (NR)
Cists and Urns found here (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 1st ed., (1867)
Cists and Urns found (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
Mr Mitchell's grandfather could remember seven standing stones, each about 4' (1.2m) high, placed in a circle on this spot. No one else in the parish could remember them.
Mr Mitchell's father, in removing cartloads of sand from Husband Hillock about 1807, found two cists each containing an urn which contained small pieces of bone and black earth.
It is more than probable that a stone circle did stand here (information from Captain F N Courtney, RE).
Name Book 1867; Information from Robert Mitchell, Wellside.
No remains of a stone circle.
F R Coles 1901.
Mr Smith (information from Mr P Smith, Harestone, Auchleven, Aberdeen-shire) confirmed the name and site of Husband Hillock at NJ 6206 2454 and that a slight rise about 15.0m in diameter reveals stones on ploughing though the rest of the field is not of a stony nature.
Nothing was seen at the time of visit as the field was under crop.
Visited by OS (ISS) 7 August 1973.
This site is under barley stubble and nothing additional to previous field report is evident.
Visited by OS (JM) 17 August 1976.
Nothing is now visible of the stone circle that is alleged to have stood in a cultivated field about 250m SE of Wellside farmsteading (NJ62SW 97). The present whereabouts of the urns, which were found in two cists at the site in about 1807, are not known.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 6 November 1996.
