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Latitude: 57.0011 / 57°0'3"N
Longitude: -2.2317 / 2°13'53"W
OS Eastings: 386025
OS Northings: 790017
OS Grid: NO860900
Mapcode National: GBR XH.RCSC
Mapcode Global: WH9RF.P9H7
Entry Name: White Hill,house and field system
Scheduled Date: 29 October 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4875
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house
Location: Fetteresso
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Stonehaven and Lower Deeside
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
The monument is in an area of heather moorland. It comprises two round houses, the larger measuring 8 m across internally within a bank up to 2.5m wide. The other, 125m to the SSE on the shoulder of the hill, measures c 6m across within a bank 1.5m wide and 0.2m high. There are low cairns round both houses, up to 4m across by 0.4m high in the vicinity of the larger house, and among them short lengths of stony bank. The area to be scheduled comprises the structures referred to above and an area around them in which traces of activities associated with their use will survive measuring 250m NE/SW by 200m NW/SE as delineated in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a good example of a small settlement with field systems which has the potential to increase our understanding of prehistoric houses, economy and farming practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS - NO 89 SE 13
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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