Tower Of Johnston
Cairn (Bronze Age), Folly (Post Medieval)
Site Name Tower Of Johnston
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Folly (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Hill Of Garvock
Canmore ID 36330
Site Number NO76NW 2
NGR NO 72669 69184
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36330
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Garvock
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO76NW 2 7266 6918
(NO 7266 6918) Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1975).
For cairn at NO 7334 6984, see NO76NW 4.
This large cairn, 50 yds in diameter, is situated on the summit of the Hill of Garvock (277m OD); a 30ft high hollow tower (a folly) has been erected on it by J Farquhar of Johnston. The cairn was carefully surrounded by a ring of large blocks of freestone, which are now covered by the stones of the cairn falling down and over them.
NSA 1845.
This cairn, about 29.0m in diameter and 2.5m high, is as described. No trace was seen of the ring of freestone blocks (presumably kerbstones) noted in the New Statistical Account (NSA).
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RL), 20 December 1967.
Air photographs: AAS/97/03/G15/5, AAS/97/03/CT and AAS/97/03/G6/1-4.
NMRS, MS/712/29.
Field Visit (March 1982)
Tower of Johnston 1 NO 726 691 NO76NW 2
The Tower of Johnston, a folly on the highest point of Hill of Garvock, has been built on top of a large cairn which measures 28.5m in diameter by at least 1.8m in height.
RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982
