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Name: | Hill of Megray |
Hill number: | 8480 |
Height: | 123.1m / 404ft |
Parent (Ma): | 515 Cairn-mon-earn |
RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Minor Rivers only (North) |
Class: | Unclassified (Un) |
Grid ref: | NO 87875 88388 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 29.5m |
Col: | 93.6m NO 8729 8865 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 45 (1:25k) 396 |
Comments: | Tump deleted Aug 2020 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 4 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 02/10/2022 |
Easy track access up from Loggie then dot to dot around the big hay bale rolls on a stunningly warm crystal clear day - with the shimmering North Sea impersonating the Med (a first?). 
Also clambered up the higher summit mound of overgrown rubble debris. Wish I had looked a lot more at the ground (or had taken a metal detector) as I now read that in 1852 in the summit field an urn containing over 200 1st - 3rd century denarii was found during trenching! The hill is also cited as one of the possible sites of the Battle of Mons Graupius - where in AD83, if the account is to be believed, up to 30,000 clashed in battle as the Romans beat the indigenous Caledonians -who were forced to fight to defend their grain stocks or face a winter of starvation. With victory here the Romans fully conquered Britain, before leaving to focus elsewhere in their empire. Quite an extraordinary history for what appears to be a n other field. | Chris Pearson | 20/09/2019 |
From new roundabout at start of bypass then across stubble fields. | hill walker | 21/10/2018 |
Way up from Forester's Croft now blocked by AWPR workings. Went round the other side and tracks from Logie get close... freshly ploughed fields at the top. | nix_snilloc | 20/02/2016 |