Tonnagaoithe

Longhouse 8m by 5m due east of head-dyke on moorland, and another 10m by 5m, just outside dyke, both beside the modern track.

J A Smith 1987

There are three huts situated to either side of the track along the N bank of the River Dee, about 680m ENE of White Bridge and some 600m SW of the township of Tonnagaoithe (NO08NW 7.00). One hut (MAR93 378) lies to the S of the track and is overlain by the ruinous drystone wall which is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS map (Aberdeenshire 1869, Sheet xcvii). The other huts (MAR93 379-80) lie along a low heather-covered ridge created by the migration of the river and to either side of the drystone wall; the larger hut (MAR93 379) measures 8.5m by 2.4m within faced-rubble footings up to 0.8m in thickness and 0.4m in height.

(MAR93 378-80)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 21 July 1993

Re-examination of this site lead to the recognition that there is a long building, aligned roughly E-W, to the N of the track (NO 0255 8866), the S side of which has been truncated by the construction of the track. This unrecorded building, in combination with the previously recorded hut (MAR93 378) to the S of the track, forms the nucleus of what may be a farmstead, comprising two buildings at right angles to one-another. The head-dyke, which stops short of the long building on the N and overlies the smaller building on the S, post-dates the farmstead. The additional building has rounded corners and measures 10.5m in length by at least 4m in breadth over faced-rubble walls, 0.9m thick and about 0.35m high.

(MAR93 378, 631)

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 October 1996