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Wheedlemont Hill
Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wheedlemont Hill
Classification Cairnfield (Prehistoric), Field System (Prehistoric), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Cnoc Cailliche; Currach Cottage
Canmore ID 75290
Site Number NJ42NE 57
NGR NJ 46899 26164
NGR Description NJ 4689 2615 and NJ 4690 2616
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/75290
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Auchindoir And Kearn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ42NE 57 4689 2615 and 4690 2616
Lying in saddle W of Cnoc Cailliche fort (NJ42NE 5), two adjoining hut circles visible in snow on air phtoographs. Sponsors: RCAHMS, Grampian Regional Council.
M K Greig 1989d.
NJ 469 261. Two adjoining hut-circles lie in the saddle W of Cnoc Cailliche fort (NJ42NE 5) and there are feed-bin stances on the lower N slopes (at NJ 469 265). The situation of the hut-circles is on a SE-facing slope in an area of rough pasture at an altitude of about 315m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/47.
(Name cited as Wheedlemont). Air photographs: AAS/00/02/G4/3 and AAS/00/02/CT.
NMRS, MS/712/100.
Scheduled as 'Currach Cottage, hut circles 330m NE of... two hut circles, visible as upstanding earthworks in gently sloping rough pasture on the SE flank of Wheedlemont Hill.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 7 November 2007.
Measured Survey (25 April 1996)
RCAHMS undertook a measured survey of the hut circles at Wheedlemont Hill using a self-reducing alidade and plane-table on 25 April 1996. The resultant 1:250 plan was redrawn in ink and graphic vector software and subsequently published at 1:500 (RCAHMS 2007, fig. 6.6).
Field Visit (22 April 1996)
(Locations cited as NJ 4689 2615 and NJ 4690 2616). Two hut-circles are situated on a gentle slope on the SE flank of Wheedlemont Hill; they overlook the saddle leading to Cnoc Cailliche to the E. The E arc of the wall of the W hut-circle overlies the wall of E hut-circle, although the junction has been obscured by trampling cattle.
The E hut-circle measures up to 9m in internal diameter, and its stone wall, which has both inner and outer facing-stones visible, measures up to 1.2m in thickness and 0.3m in height. There is an entrance on the S, and the interior has been dug into the slope on the N.
The W hut-circle measures up to 11m in diameter within a stone wall now largely reduced to a grass-grown bank up to 1.3m in thickness and 0.3m in height. A number of probable facing-stones are visible and there is an entrance on the S. Much of the SW arc of the hut-circle wall is missing, and its line is now only visible where robber trenches indicate the former position of the faces. The interior appears has been levelled into the slope on the N to a depth of about 0.2m.
A field-system in the vicinity of the hut-circles is reduced to a series of now discontinuous of stony banks that probably covered a more extensive area before comparatively recent land improvements. A single grass-grown clearance cairn, measuring 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height, is situated 9m to the NE of the hut-circles.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 22 April 1996.
