Upper Tillenhilt
Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Upper Tillenhilt
Classification Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Hill Of Fare
Canmore ID 152503
Site Number NJ60SE 39
NGR NJ 6632 0449
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Midmar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ60SE 39 6632 0449
Formerly entered as NJ60SE 19
(Location cited as NJ c. 663 045). Upper Tillenhilt. Air photography (AAS/81/12/S14/4-9, flown 25 November 1981) has recorded a stone-walled enclosure in an area of grassland and heather scrub on a spur at an altitude of about 300m OD. There are other walls in the vicinity.
NMRS, MS/712/55.
This circular enclosure is situated in rough pasture about 410m SW of Upper Tillenhilt farmsteading (NJ60NE 24), occupying the flattish summit of a low spur that descends from the NW shoulder of the Hill of Fare. Probably no more than a stock enclosure of comparatively recent date, it measures about 25m in diameter over a low, grass-grown stony bank, and there is a wide entrance on the SW. A stony bank that climbs up the E side of the spur passes close by the E side of the enclosure.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 4 March 1999.