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