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Hill of Newleslie
Aberdeenshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2950
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2950 (2950)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Historic county
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Leslie
- National Grid reference
- NJ 5824 2546
- Latitude
- 57.31793
- Longitude
- -2.69493
- Altitude
- 285 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1982); Other (1983); Earthwork Survey (2003); Other (2006); Excavation (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 11510
- HER
- Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record NJ52NE0038
- National record
- record NJ 52 NE 31; monument 17638
- Wikidata
- Q31084577
Sources
References
- Cook, Engl, Dunbar, Kdolska and Sagrott, M,R,L,H and S (2009) 'Hillforts of Strathdon: Phase 3 - Hill of Barra and Hill of Newleslie, Aberdeenshire (Bourtie and Leslie parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 10 (2009), 19
- Halliday, S P (2007) The later prehistoric landscape. In RCAHMS (2007) In the Shadow of Bennachie: A Field Archaeology of Donside, Aberdeenshire. RCAHMS & Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh
- Watt, W (1983) 'Hill of New Leslie (Leslie p): hill fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 10-11