Tillyfar
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tillyfar
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Shannocks
Canmore ID 19262
Site Number NJ75SW 17
NGR NJ 71915 51930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19262
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Turriff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ75SW 17 7190 5195
(Location cited as NJ 719 519). Two adjoining ring-ditches.
NMRS, MS/712/17.
(Location cited as NJ 7192 5192). Air photography (AAS/78/6/S8/8-12) has recorded the cropmarks of an enclosure (comprising two adjoining circles).
Information from Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, June 1997.
NMRS, MS/712/19.
Watching Brief (4 August 2014)
A watching brief was maintained during the soil strip for the cable installation works associated with a wind turbine at Tillyfar, E of Little Hilton, Turriff. Aerial photographs had recorded cropmarks of possible ring ditch buildings nearby. A small segment of the top of the outer circumference of one of the ring ditches was identified directly below the cultivated topsoil removed in the soil strip of the cable trench. The feature was recorded and re-buried, being avoided by the cut for the cable. There were no associated finds.
Information from OASIS ID: mas1-207261 (J C Murray) 2014.
