Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667923

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ54NW 11 5297 4645

See also NJ54NW 1.

A symbol stone was ploughed up a little before 1867 in the field called Donaldstone Haugh (centred at NJ 533 473) on North Tillytarmont farm where it is now built into the west wall of the small outhouse next the NE corner of the farmhouse. To agree with Ferguson (1956) and to avoid confusion it is now labelled Tilleytarmont No. 1: It is of red granite, about 3'8" high, sculptured on one face with a bird - sometimes identified as a goose, hence the occasional appelation 'goose stone' - together with the mirror and mirror-case symbols. The base seems to end in a tenon as if for fitting to a socket.

(For the stones called Tilleytarmont Nos. 2 and 3 and a fourth stone from North Redhill, see NJ54NW 1.)

J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; W D Simpson 1935; W Ferguson 1956.