White Hill
Non Antiquity (Possible)
Site Name White Hill
Classification Non Antiquity (Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Whitehill Wood
Canmore ID 18661
Site Number NJ71NW 15
NGR NJ 70 19
NGR Description NJ c. 70 19
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18661
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Monymusk
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NW 15 c. 70 19
See also NJ61SW 3.
(Area NJ 70 19) There was, in Whitehill Wood, in 1853, a low rampart of stones, guarded by a large flat stone set endwise and enclosing a hollowed-out area 9' in diameter. The W flanker remains standing 7 1/4' high. The E flanker, 8 1/2' long is down. The other stones are large, 5 1/2', 6', and nearly 8' high.
G F Browne 1921.
There is no trace and no local knowledge of this setting of stones, which, from the somewhat ambiguous description appears to have been a recumbent stone circle.
Visited by OS (NKB) 20 August 1976.
No trace of this feature was found in the mature coniferous woodland on White Hill.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 22 October 1996.
The monument described in Browne (1921) is actually the recumbent stone circle of Tillyfourie (NJ61SW 3).
Information from RCAHMS (ATW), 23 February 2005.
