Alternative Names Tullibole Kirkyard, Wellwood-Moncrieff Monument
Site type BURIAL GROUND, CHURCH, OBELISK
Canmore ID 26514
Site Number NO00SE 8
NGR NO 05459 00817
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish FOSSOWAY (PERTH AND KINROSS)
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County KINROSS-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO00SE 8 05459 00817

See also NO00SE 9.

(NO 0546 0081) Church (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)

The churches of Fossoway (NO00SW 6) and Tullibole were taken down in 1729. They were replaced by a new church and manse at Tullibole which lasted for 51 years when the church fell into disuse.
OSA 1796.

Tullibole church is represented merely by foundations on the N side of a derelict graveyard. The oldest tombstone above ground is that of James Liuiston, who died in 1660.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1929.

The existing foundations of Tullibole Church suggest that it measured 21.0m E-W by 6.0m transversely over walls 0.6m thick which, except at the centre of the N side, where the wall is 1.5m high, are reduced to grass-covered footings. The remains, however, may well represent two phases of the church, probably pre- and post-1729. About 4.0m E of the E end of the church is the outline in the turf of a small rectangular building, while 24.0m to the N are the turf-covered footings of
another. Both of these may be associated with the church. The 17th century gravestone was not located.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (E G C) 27 December 1967.

Notes and Activities

27 April 2008 to 24 May 2008

GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY

Notes NO 0545 0081 Resistivity and magnetic gradiometer surveys were carried out in the churchyard 27 April–24 May 2008. Conspicuous low resistivity areas were delineated around the church and two small buildings in the N and SE of the area. Such lows around the sites of buildings are a common feature of Perthshire graveyards .There were also a number of small, sub-circular, low resistivity areas typically about 2m in diameter. At the time of the survey there were no obvious ground features corresponding to the anomalies but subsequent visits, when the vegetation was more developed, showed them to be slightly elevated reedy patches. They
probably correspond to individual graves marked with memorial stones which are now lost or buried.
A circular high resistivity annulus surrounded the James Wellwood Moncrieff memorial. This may represent drier soil dug out and spread during the construction of the monument, but given the antiquity of the site it could easily be a much older feature.
The magnetic map is noisy, as is often the case in graveyards. Some anomalies corresponded to recognisable
features. These included grave sites and the walls of former buildings. A nearby magnetic basaltic sill appears to have been quarried for some of the construction material and many of the anomalies probably reflect the presence of this rock.
Archive: Perth and Kinross SMR and RCAHMS(intended)
Funder: Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust
Peter Morris – Blairgowrie Geoscience

Further details

Books and References

Morris, P (2009c) 'Tullibole Churchyard, Perth and Kinross (Fossoway parish), geophysical survey', Discovery Excav Scot, New, vol.10 Cathedral Communications Limited, Wiltshire, England.
Page(s): 153

OSA (1791-9) The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes, in Sinclair, J (Sir) Edinburgh
Page(s): Vol. 18, 446-7 Held at RCAHMS B.2.2.STA

RCAHMS (1933) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eleventh report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan Edinburgh
Page(s): 291, No. 554 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/11

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