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Keillor Hill (NO 280385, 334m)
Pictish caled dobhar, “hard water”
Location: main ridge, west central
Neighbours: Lundie Craigs (S), Donald’s Brae (NE)
Summit: heather
Notes: Ordnance Survey applies the name to the small 313m top a few hundred metres to the NE; Mackenzie Meridian tower on NE slope; wind turbines on NW slope; above Keillor, East Keillor, High Keillor and Hill of Keillor farms
Summit of Keillor Hill looking towards the back of Lundie Craigs
Summit of Keillor Hill looking towards Strathmore
Mackenzie Meridian tower on Keillor Hill, with Kinpurney Hill (tower) and Henderston Hill (wooded) beyond
Keillor Hill from the back of Lundie Craigs
Kincaldrum Hill (NO 414436, 309m)
Gaelic ceann caled druim, “at the head of the hard ridge”
Location: main ridge, east
Neighbours: Unnamed Point 315/1 (SW), Hayston Hill (W)
Summit: rough grass; triangulation pillar
Notes: Ordnance Survey apply the name to the 291m end of the ridge at NO 417442, above Kincaldrum House, leaving the higher point with the triangulation pillar, above East Cotton of Kincaldrum, apparently unnamed; spring of Ironharrow Well is on the west slope
Summit of Kincaldrum Hill, Fothringham Hill in the distance
The 291m summit north of the triangulation pillar on Kincaldrum Hill
Looking towards Kincaldrum Hill from Finlarg Hill; Kincaldrum is the most distant grassy summit before the flat farmland of Strathmore
Ironharrow Well
King’s Seat (NO 230330, 377m)
English, as written, although the specific king associated with the hill is unknown
Location: main ridge, west
Neighbours: Black Hill (SW), Buttergask Hill (N)
Hill Lists: Marilyn, HuMP, Tump
Summit: rough grass covering a large ancient cairn, surmounted by a small cairn and triangulation pillar; wind turbine on east side
Summit of King’s Seat, looking towards Black Hill and Bandirran Hill
King’s Seat seen in the distance from Black Hill
King’s Seat seen from Smithton Hill, with crags of Gask Hill on the right
King’s Seat and the wind turbine on its east side
Kinpurney Hill (NO 322417, 345m)
Gaelic ceann, “head” + Pictish prennach “tree-covered”
Location: main ridge, east central
Neighbours: Hatton Hill (SW), Henderston Hill (E), Unnamed Point 315/2 (NE)
Hill Lists: Tump
Summit: rough grass; summit surrounded by ramparts of an ancient hill fort and crowned by the shell of an eighteenth century observatory tower, a fenced view indicator and a triangulation pillar
Notes: above Kinpurney farm and within sight of Kinpurnie Castle (note spellings); memorial bench on west slope, next to path from Newtyle
Observatory tower, view indicator and triangulation pillar on summit of Kinpurney Hill
Near the summit of Kinpurney Hill, looking towards Castleward
Summit of Hatton Hill, looking towards Kinpurney Hill
Memorial bench on Kinpurney Hill
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