Tulloch Park
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Mound (Period Unassigned), Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tulloch Park
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Mound (Period Unassigned), Souterrain (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Lythmore
Canmore ID 7790
Site Number ND06NE 21
NGR ND 0545 6545
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/7790
- Council Highland
- Parish Thurso
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND06NE 21 0545 6543.
ND 055 655 The entrance to a souterrain was exposed when the plough lifted a large slab in a field called Tulloch Park at Lythmore, 21 May 1984. The 'tulloch' itself is a low mound about 40m N-S. The souterrain lies at the extreme northern end of the tulloch and is entered from the west. A digger 'brought in to explore the mound' revealed that a
surface layer of loose stone overlay evidence of fires with burnt stones and a few animal bones which in turn overlay a 'layered clay layer.' The only artefact was a smooth shore pebble found on the clay layer.
Information contained in letter from Jack Saxon, 7 Rockwell Terrace, Thurso, to Soc Antiq Scot 22 May 1984.
Aerial photographs indicate the existence of a mound, probably the 'tulloch', at ND 0545 6545. It appears to be surmounted by a circular enclosure, c.15m to 20m in diameter, and the mound itself may be enclosed by a narrow ditch. (Visible on RAF air photographs 106 G/Scot UK 75:3369-71 : flown 9 May 1946.
