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Tullos Cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The cairn consists of a stone mound constructed during the later prehistoric period, characteristic of burial practices employed across northern Britain during the second millennium BCE. Such cairns typically contained cremated remains and sometimes grave goods, reflecting the ritual and commemorative practices of Bronze Age communities. The monument survives as an important archaeological record of prehistoric settlement and funerary tradition in the Mearns region.
Tullos Cairn, cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4055. View the official record →
Tullos Cairn is a Bronze Age funerary monument located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4055.
Tullos Cairn, cairn 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 SM4055.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Baron's Cairn, cairn (0.4 km), Crab's Cairn, cairn (0.5 km), St Fittick's Church, Aberdeen (0.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Tullos Cairn, cairn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Tullos Cairn, cairn stands on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.