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Stot Hill
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2947
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2947 (2947)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lumphanan
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5937 0318
- Latitude
- 57.11782
- Longitude
- -2.67257
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1968); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ50SE0012
- National record
- record NJ 50 SE 13; monument 17490
- Wikidata
- Q31083900
Sources
References
- Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys (1979) 'Stot Hill, Lumphanan parish, enclosures'. Disc Exc Scot (1979), 13 no.79