Kilmarnock, Castle Hill
Mound (Period Unknown)
Site Name Kilmarnock, Castle Hill
Classification Mound (Period Unknown)
Alternative Name(s) 'Motte'
Canmore ID 42799
Site Number NS43NW 25
NGR NS 4167 3587
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42799
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Riccarton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
- Former County Ayrshire
NS43NW 25 4167 3587
(NS 4167 3587) Castle Hill (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1979)
Possible castle mound. A regular oval mound with a flat top, 55 by 30ft.
J Smith 1895.
Castle Hill is a tree-covered mound, projecting as a spur from an elevated ridge. The top is flat and 5.0m in diameter. There is no evidence of a ditch cutting it off from the ridge (though any such may have been obliterated by the Golf Course there) and no traces of defensive works, but the mound seems to be partly artificial and, with its flat top, could be a motte.
Visited by OS (JLD), 8 June 1954
Castle Hill: This mound, noted in the ONB (1856) merely as 'a small eminence' shows no evidence of adaptation. Although it looks imposing from the lower ground on the N, it merges naturally with the contours on the uphill (S) side, where it has a maximum height of only 1.4m. The top is rounded and without an obvious diameter.
Visited by OS (JRL), 4 July 1982.
