Upper Tillygarmond
Long Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Site Name Upper Tillygarmond
Classification Long Cairn (Neolithic)(Possible)
Canmore ID 141807
Site Number NO69SW 21
NGR NO 6309 9414
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141807
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Birse
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NO69SW 21 6309 9414
The following feature was located and surveyed during a detailed survey of features at Upper Tillygarmond:
NO 6309 9414 ?Long cairn
A detailed report will be lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh.
D Alexander 1998.
(Location cited as NO 6300 9408). This long cairn is situated on a slight shelf in a SE-facing slope in an area of rough grazing at an altititude of 235m OD. It is trapezoidal on plan, comprises a turf-covered mound of earth and stone aligned NW-SE, and measures 33m in length by 11m in width at the NW end and 22m at the SE. The NE and SW ends are 1.4 and 0.4m high respectively. There is a spread of field clearanace material on top of the mound, a field bank overruns the mound, and there at whin bushes growing at the NE end.
Information from D Alexander (CFA), surveyed March 1998.
NMRS, MS/712/90.
Field Visit (25 April 2002)
A large amount of field-cleared stones has been piled on top of a ridge of outcrop in the corner of a rough pasture field some 260m to the NNE of Upper Tillygarmond. This forms a linear mound of stones measuring 23.5m from NNW to SSE, tapering in breadth from 14m to 11.5m towards the NNW. The edges of the mound are ragged and poorly defined and the sides appear to range in height from 0.5 on the WSW to 1.2m on the ENE. A later field bank cuts across the SSE end of the mound, where it is also obscured by gorse. A quarry has been dug into the SSE end of the ridge of outcrop.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG,SPH), 25 April 2002
