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Barra Hill

Unidentified Flint (Flint), Unidentified Pottery (Prehistoric)

Site Name Barra Hill

Classification Unidentified Flint (Flint), Unidentified Pottery (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Hill Of Barra; Comyn's Camp; Barra Hillfort

Canmore ID 150876

Site Number NJ82NW 4.01

NGR NJ 802 257

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Bourtie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ82NW 4.01 802 257

See also NJ82NW 4.01, NJ82NW 10, NJ82NW 22, NJ82NW 59.

NJ 802 257 Quantity of abraded ?Iron Age pottery sherds, including four rims, one with incised fingernail decoration. Surface finds following mole activity on Barra hillfort. Finds donated to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen.

Also part of a plano-convex flint knife blade. Surface find.

W J Howard 1999

NJ 802 257 Significant numbers of pottery sherds continue to appear as a result of mole and rabbit activity on the site of Barra hillfort. Whilst the majority of this pottery is probably of Iron Age date, two rims of Neolithic date have been identified as well as another fragment tentatively identified as Bronze Age. These finds, together with previously reported finds (DES 1995, 31; DES 1999, 7) of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age material, suggest that this hilltop had been an occupation site long before the construction of its Iron Age fortifications. Pottery donated to Marischal Museum, Aberdeen.

W J Howard 2000

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