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White Hill,house and field system

A Scheduled Monument in Stonehaven and Lower Deeside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

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

Description

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

Statement of Scheduling

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

Sources

Bibliography

RCAHMS - NO 89 SE 13

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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