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Tillytarmont
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Tillytarmont
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 17840
Site Number NJ54NW 24
NGR NJ 533 472
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17840
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Cairnie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ54NW 24 533 472.
Three stony areas in a field in which Class I symbol stones and large white quartzite boulders have been found at various times (see NJ54NW 1, NJ54NW 20, NJ54NW 22 ) were tested. Two showed no identifiable features. The third was a square cairn of large water worn stones measuring 4.25m by 4.25m and over 0.5m high. Fragments of white quartzite found centrally represent remains of a boulder. The water-rippled underlying sand showed no trace of features. There was no dating evidence. Stony areas have been marked with iron bars laid flat.
A A Woodham 1975.
Geophysical Survey (13 October 2012 - 14 October 2012)
NJ 533 472 As part of The Rise and Fall of the Picts: Survey and Excavation at the Early Power Centres and Symbol Stones of Northern Pictland Project a geophysical survey was undertaken, 13–14 October 2012, on Donaldson Haugh.
A total of five Class I Pictish stones have been found at Donaldson Haugh since the 19th century. Excavations in 1975 revealed a stone platform or cairn in close association with the findspots of the most recently discovered stones (NJ54NW 24). The magnetic survey recorded a number of linear anomalies, most of which run roughly E–W across the field and appear to represent the old routeways crossing the haughland and connecting two fords. A number of additional anomalies were also recorded. The excavation of test pits failed to reveal any archaeological features in association with the anomalies. Evaluative trenches opened over the findspots of the symbol stones and the cairn excavated in 1975 revealed only subsoil. It is possible that any in situ remains may have been removed by intensive ploughing of the haughland over the last few decades.
Archive: University of Aberdeen (currently)
G Noble, University of Aberdeen
O Sveinbjarnarson,
C Hatherley,
2012
