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Remains of a burial cairn, comprising a sub-circular raised stony feature. This is one of 150 possible new sites discovered during a survey in the spring of 2004 by CFA field survey (NJ90SE0586). Community excavation directed by CFA carried out in July 2010 showed this to be a burial cairn of prehistoric date. A robber pit in the centre overlies a small internal ring-ditch surrounding a deposit of cremated bone. It is not clear whether the ring-ditch and cremation were contemporary with the body of the cairn. A small number of worked flints, a hammerstone and a stone with a pecked depression were recovered during the excavation. A second phase of community excavation directed by CFA in August - September 2012 examined a second quadrant of the cairn. The cairn was shown to be 8m in diameter, and its make-up incorporated a large number of quartz chunks and pebbles. The central area contained a stone-lined pit, the fill containing fragments of cremated bone. Four tiny fragments of fired clay and five small lithic artefacts were recovered from the topsoil. A 1938 5-Reichspfennig coin, recovered from the upper surfaces of the cairn, probably relates to the nearby POW camp at Peterseat (see NJ90SE0033).
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Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Aberdeen City
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NJ90SE0032 - TULLOS HILL