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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

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Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the SW.
Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the SW.Aerial photographOblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the SW.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the NE.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the NE.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill and Cotetown, looking to the N.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill and Cotetown, looking to the NNW.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill and Cotetown, looking to the W.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the ENE.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill and Cotetown, looking to the NNW.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill and Cotetown, looking to the WNW.Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the unenclosed settlement and ring ditches at Littlemill with the farmstead at Cotetown adjacent, looking to the NNE.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Leslie (Gordon)
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

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