Tulloch of Milton
The Tulloch of Milton is near the Thurso River , west of Halkirk in Caithness , Scotland .
description
The Tulloch of Milton is a severely disturbed oval Stalled Cairn of the Orkney-Cromarty-Type (OC) that appears as a series of up to 1.7 m high, 34 m by 24 m measuring grassy mounds. The tips of a row of plates are exposed. Nine on the southwest side are not very different in elevation and may represent the division of two chambers (similar to the Cairn A of the Cairns of Tulloch of Assery ), but it is not certain that they belong to the same structure. Two more panels that form a middle group can belong to a chamber or a corridor. The purpose of four other stones is unclear. The Ordnance Survey Name Book of 1872, however, lists a descriptive drawing of a six-sided chamber in which burned human bones and ashes were found.
About 20 m to the south is a horseshoe-shaped hill, possibly a ring cairn .
literature
- James L. Davidson, Audrey S. Henshall: The chambered cairns of Caithness. An inventory of the structures and their contents . Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1991, ISBN 0-7486-0256-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Scottish Gaelic gift of god is a name of medieval Scottish origin and comes from a place near Dingwall on the Firth of Cromarty or from another smaller place named with the Gaelic element "Tulach" (hill). The variants are Tullo, Tullock and Tulloh. - The Tullochs northeast of Lybster are hills and structures, one of which a Broch could belong )
Web links
- Entry on Tulloch of Milton in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 58 ° 30 ′ 40.7 " N , 3 ° 30 ′ 21.9" W.