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<< Text Pages >> Hillhead Stone Circle - Stone Circle in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Hillhead Stone Circle
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Aberdeenshire Type: Stone Circle
 Nearest Village: Tarland
Map Ref: NJ50720714
Latitude: 57.152476N  Longitude: 2.816179W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Recumbent Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire. Originally identified as a Roundhouse or Ring Cairn excavation showed it to have been a stone circle. Excavation was possible after the area had been clear felled in the early 2010's.

Unfortunately a new planation has now been established on the site. I was unable to actually locate the site - I could have walked within five yards of it and not seen any evidence of it.

A report on the excation can be found here
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NJ5007 : Junction of tracks to Alamein and Pett by Stanley Howe
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NJ5007 : Coming off Blackhills moor by Stanley Howe
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Excavations at Hillhead, Tarland by Richard Bradley and Amanda Clarke by Andy B on Sunday, 27 June 2021
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Excavations at Hillhead, Tarland by Richard Bradley and Amanda Clarke

The prehistoric monument at Hillhead overlooks the Howe of Cromar and is located in a saddle beside a long established drove road communicating between there and the Howe of Cushnie. It was built at a height of 345 metres on the watershed of the Dee and the Don and commands an extensive view to the south and south west, extending as far as Lochnagar and the mountains of South Deeside. The stone circles at Tomnaverie and Waulkmill are also visible.

A remarkable feature is that the site at Hillhead was constructed at the first point where someone climbing the slope from the west would catch a glimpse of the summit of Mither Tap. That happens at the exact location of the ring cairn. Any further down to the slope to the south west, the mountaintop is invisible. The area above the excavated site may have contained other monuments which have been located during fieldwork by Moyra Simon and Jane Summers.

The site was first identified by Ken Cooper as a circular bank covered by trees. He made the reasonable suggestion that it consisted of the remains of a large roundhouse like those at Old and New Kinnord. He also noted the presence of quartz on the site and a flat stone in the centre of the enclosure.Although he published a note of the discovery, the site remained little known. No one seems to have been aware of its archaeological significance when it was first afforested and it was only when the trees had been removed and trenches had been excavated for a second phase of planting that its potential importance was recognised.

Following discussion between the McRobert Estate and the Aberdeenshire Council it was agreed that the site should be preserved and that excavation should take place there. Before excavation in September 2013 the entire area that had been planted was surveyed by a team led by Moyra Simon and Jane Summers. This work resulted in the identification of an extensive distribution of worked quartz. There were smaller groups of worked flint, and a short distance outside the ring cairn sherds of early Beaker pottery were found, together with a barbed and tanged arrowhead. They may be all that remains of a destroyed burial.

https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/files/archaeology/RBradley_Excavations-Hillhead-web.pdf
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