Craig Hill
Natural Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Craig Hill
Classification Natural Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 83487
Site Number NJ51NW 24
NGR NJ 531 151
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Alford
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ51NW 24 531 151
See also NJ51NW 93.
Hill fort on summit; oval enclosure with possible bank to SE.
Information from Mrs M Greig (Grampian Regional Council), 24 April 1995.
Air photography (AAS/92/01/S1/14-15 and AAS/92/01/S2/1-5 and 10, flown 20 February 1992, and [vertical] SDD/14/88/143-5, flown 16 May 1998) has recorded what may be a fort in rough pasture, grass and gorse on the summit of this hill at an altitude of 307m OD. It is oval on plan and there is an oval enclosure with a possible bank to the SSE.
NMRS, MS/712/50.
(Reclassified as 'Fort (Possible)': Nil Antiquity). There is no trace of a fort or an enclosure on Craig Hill. The top of the hill is rounded and largely grass-grown, and the ground falls away gradually to the N and E. Several terraces can be followed on the ground roughly along the line of the 290m and 300m contours, but these all appear to be natural features. Where the ground drops more steeply on the S and W, the hillside is more stony and gorse-grown, and there is a thin spread of modern field-clearance heaps (NJ51NW 93).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG, SPH), 25 April 2002.
