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Auldtown Burnt Mound is a burnt mound located in Aberdeenshire, six hundred and forty metres south-west of Auldtown. These monuments typically date from the Bronze Age or Iron Age and consist of blackened stone rubble accumulated around what were likely cooking or bathing sites. The mound would have been created through repeated heating and quenching of stones in water to prepare food or heat water, a labour-intensive process that left substantial archaeological traces. The underlying bedrock at this location comprises Argyll Group metasedimentary rocks—psammite, semipelite and pelite—formed during the Neoproterozoic era, which would have provided suitable stone for this thermal activity.
The burnt mound remains archaeologically significant as evidence of prehistoric subsistence practices in Aberdeenshire. Such sites are typically found in moorland or marginal ground, often near water sources necessary for the heating process. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM11762, recognising its importance to understanding local Iron Age and Bronze Age settlement patterns and economic activity across this region of northeast Scotland.
Auldtown, burnt mound 640m SW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11762. View the official record →
Auldtown Burnt Mound is a burnt mound located in Aberdeenshire, six hundred and forty metres south-west of Auldtown. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11762.
Auldtown, burnt mound 640m SW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM11762.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Knock Hill, hut circle 315m NNE of Fernyhowe (6.4 km), Knock Hill cairn, 605m WSW of St John's Well (6.4 km), Ferny Howe, cairn 200m ESE of (6.8 km).
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Auldtown, burnt mound 640m SW of stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.