Tulloch
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tulloch
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 27658
Site Number NO06SE 9
NGR NO 05442 63825
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27658
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Moulin
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (23 October 1973)
NO 055 638. Motte. (E J Talbot 1974)
This alleged motte is at NO 0543 6382 at the side of a drove road and on the SW edge of a large area of "depop" cultivation with contemporary houses. It is a prominent glacial hillock which has had its top levelled and its sides artificially steepened by scarping. It measures overall some 29.0m in diameter and is about 5.0m high, with the roughly circular summit 11.0m in diameter. The lack of any trace of a surrounding ditch or other outwork makes this isolated, rather vulnerable knoll somewhat suspect as a motte, although it is difficult to attribute the scarping and levelling to any other cause.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 23 October 1973
Field Visit (9 September 1980)
This mound is almost certainly not a motte. Recent forestry furrows (as yet unplanted) across the whole of the mound reveal that it is partly or wholly constructed and it is composed of earth and portable stones. A rubbing stone was found in a furrow on the W flank, and there is some evidence of compacted stonework around the SW base, preventing downhill slip.
This is likely to be a burial cairn (probable Bronze Age occupation is nearby - See NO 06 SE 20) although its spread base profile may suggest superimposition on a morainic swelling. Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JRL) 9 September 1980
Field Visit (29 February 1988)
NO06SE 9 0544 6382
What is probably a large cairn stands on the edge of a terrace above an old road 480m NNW of Tulloch cottage. It measures about 27m in diameter by at least 4m in height and it has a flat top about 10.5m in diameter. Forestry ploughing has revealed large quantities of stones on the sides of the mound.
Visited by RCAHMS (SH) 29 February 1988
RCAHMS 1990
Field Visit (14 August 2013)
Disturbance to this mound since 1988, probably the result of quarrying, has confirmed its classification as a large cairn. The cut has probably trimmed at least 3m off the lower SW flank of the mound and the section face, which measures some 10m in length, has revealed a high concentration of small boulders set within a matrix of brown earth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, GG) 14 August 2013.
