Trefor Hill
Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Site Name Trefor Hill
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 21130
Site Number NK06SW 12
NGR NK 0002 6152
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/21130
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Rathen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK06SW 12 000 615
See also NK06SW 21.
Trefor Hill is seemingly artificial and has allegedly been an old encampment. It is nearly circular, steep-sided except in one quarter, and its flat top is about 30 yards in diameter.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
It has possibly been used as a fort (walls and trenches of earth and stones were visible until recently). The hill was probably formed by water action. Calcined bones were found at the opening of the hill a few years before 1867.
Name Book 1867.
Trefor Hill is a prominent natural knoll with a flat oval top about 20.0m by about 25.0m. The N arc is sharply defined suggesting artificial scarping, but there is no other evidence of fortification. Several earth-fast stones, some of quartz, around the rim of this arc have almost certainly been placed recently. No definite evidence of an antiquity.
Visited by OS (RL) 14 January 1969.
Bogdan suggests possible motte.
NMRS, MS/2059.
