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Gallows Hill
Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Gallows Hill
Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Gallow Hill; Knock Hill
Canmore ID 76928
Site Number NJ52NE 44
NGR NJ 593 294
NGR Description NJ 593 294 to NJ 588 302
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76928
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Insch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ52NE 44 593 294 to 588 302
Extends onto map sheet NJ53SE.
(Location cited as NJ 590 299). Gallows Hill. Air photography (AAS/81/11/S11/23-9 and AAS/81/12/S12/31-7) has recorded several plots of rig-and-furrow cultivation in grazing land on a ridge at an altitude of 200m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/36.
(Location amended to NJ 593 294 to NJ 588 302). The extent of rig-and-furrow cultivation now surviving on Gallows Hill has been largely restricted to the SW flank of the hill, where the steepness of the slope has discouraged modern ploughing. Vertical aerial photographs, taken by the RAF (106G/Scot/UK 130 5246-7, flown 25 June 1946) and by the Ordnance Survey (64/181/159-60) in 1964, however, reveal that the rigs once covered a much greater area of the hill, and have only been levelled relatively recently. Most of the rig is aligned roughly NE and SW.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 23 February 1996.
