Alternative Names Tuach Hill
Site type LONG CAIRN, CINERARY URN
Canmore ID 18588
Site Number NJ71NE 31
NGR NJ 7952 1514
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish KINTORE
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District GORDON
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NJ71NE 31 7952 1514.

(NJ 7952 1514) Cairn (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1968)

This cairn was opened some years ago and found to contain a stone coffin with an urn and some bones, supposed to be human. The coffin was not disturbed except that the end was taken out to extract its contents, and part of it can still be seen protruding from the soil. The urn was given to Mr Wilson, at that time proprietor of Glasgowego (NSA 1845).
Name Book 1864; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.

A cist, approximately 4ft (1.2m) long, was seen by Mr Morrison 'about ten years ago' at this position. It is situated at the E end of a glacial deposit that has been used as a quarry and a dump for field clearance, and the cist cannot now be seen.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 March 1964; Information from Mr Morrison, Mid Mill Farm, Kintore.

Woodham considers that the remains at this site are those of 'a grass-covered long cairn 3 to 3 1/2m high and 24.5m wide aligned ESE-WNW and possibly horned at the W end. The E end is badly damaged by quarrying and the surviving W portion is 29.2 m long. The original length may have been 65m.'
A A Woodham 1975.

(GRC/AAS photography listed).
NMRS, MS/712/67.

What may be the remains of a long barrow are situated on the crest of a low rise in an area of relatively open ground to the SE of Kintore. The surviving portion of the barrow stands 3.5m high and measures at least 27m in length, tapering in width from 20m at the ESE end to 16m on the WNW. A cleft cuts obliquely across the axis of the barrow at the ESE end, its line followed by an old field boundary. To the E of this point the mound has been heavily quarried, but it may have extended another 34m to the ESE, its axis swinging a little further to the S to assuming a NW and SE alignment. A small quarry has been dug into the WNW end of the barrow. The area immediately to the SW of the barrow has been levelled prior to development.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 2 October 1996; (ARG, SPH), 26 April 2002.

NJ 791 151 On Wednesday 12 December 2001, an archaeological watching brief was maintained at Kintore Business Park, Aberdeenshire, during the laying of high voltage underground cable. The work was observed but no archaeological features or artefacts were evident.
J C Murray 8 January 2002

NJ 7952 1514 A watching brief was undertaken between 29 June and 3 July 2007 along the line of a new electricity
cable trench which ran c30m W of Midmill Long Cairn. No archaeological features or finds were evident. Reports deposited with Aberdeenshire SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: SSE Power Distribution.
J C Murray, 2007.

Notes and Activities

29 June 2007 to 3 July 2007

WATCHING BRIEF

Notes NJ 7952 1514 A watching brief was undertaken between 29 June and 3 July 2007 along the line of a new electricity cable trench which ran c30m W of Midmill Long Cairn. No archaeological features or finds were evident. Reports deposited with Aberdeenshire SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: SSE Power Distribution.
J C Murray, 2007.


Further details

Books and References

Murray, J C (2007g) 'Midmill Long Cairn, Kintore, Aberdeenshire (Kintore parish), watching brief', Discovery Excav Scot, vol.8 Cathedral Communications Limited, Wiltshire, England.
Page(s): 25-26

NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol. 12, (Aberdeen), 659 Held at RCAHMS B.2.2.STA

Ordnance Survey (Name Book) Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey (6 inch and 1/2500 scale)
Page(s): Book No. 51, 111 Held at RCAHMS Ref

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