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Littlemill
Ring Ditch(S) (Period Unassigned), Unenclosed Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Littlemill
Classification Ring Ditch(S) (Period Unassigned), Unenclosed Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cotetown; Johnston
Canmore ID 76929
Site Number NJ52SE 29
NGR NJ 58423 24862
NGR Description Centred NJ 58423 24862
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/76929
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Leslie (Gordon)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ52SE 29 centred 58423 24862
Formerly entered at cited location NJ 583 248.
(Location cited as NJ 584 249 and name as Cotetown). Air photography (AAS/83/11/R28/2-6 and AAS/83/14/R31/5-8) has recorded the cropmarks of about ten ring-ditches, which may represent houses, at an altitude of 190m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/53.
Scheduled as 'Johnston, unenclosed settlement... an unenclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique air photographs.' It is situated in gently sloping ground in a cultivated field, 195-200m ababove sea level.
(Location revised on evidence of map attached to scheduling document).
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2007.
