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Camp Hill
Earthwork (Period Unassigned), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Camp Hill
Classification Earthwork (Period Unassigned), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Camphill, Cults; Camphill House Policies
Canmore ID 19378
Site Number NJ80SE 17
NGR NJ 8540 0084
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19378
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Peterculter
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ80SE 17 8540 0084
(NJ 8540 0084) Fort (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1904)
There are slight traces of fortifications on the top of Camp Hill, about three-quarters of a mile east of Peterculter.
E Meldrum 1957.
The site of this alleged fort lies on top of a long and narrow east-west running ridge. No traces of it can now be seen on the ground.
Visited by OS (WDJ), 28 November 1961.
Identified as motte.
P A Yeoman 1988.
Nothing is visible of this alleged earthwork, and its site has been heavily landscaped and disturbed by the development of roads and buildings associated with the Camphill School (NJ80SE 122).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 27 February 1997.
