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Photo Pages: Tealing - Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) in Scotland in Angus
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Submitted by Nick on Tuesday, 05 November 2002 Page Views: 4538
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 Site Name: Tealing Country: Scotland County: Angus Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Nearest Town: Kirriemuir
Map Ref: NO412381 Landranger Map Number: 54
Latitude: 56.531224N Longitude: 2.957542W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) in Angus
Tealing is just north of Dundee on the A929. Turn into the village and follow the road round, and look for the signpost. The souterrain is down a track and over a stile in a field behind the doocot (16th century pigeon house).
This site dates from approximately 100 AD, and is a well preserved example. These earth houses were covered over with thatched roofs, and used for storage. The cup and ring marked stone at the northern entrance is thought to have been taken from another site and used in the construction.
It has been described thus : This souterrain was accidentally discovered during agricultural operations in 1871. It is curved in plan, and the inner end is rounded; it appears to have been divided into two compartments, and is c 80' long. Its greatest width is 8-1/2', 5' from the inner end, and its maximum height is c 6'4". The sloping floor, where it is not natural rock, seems to have been paved. Finds included charcoal, animal bones, a piece of Samian ware (possibly 2nd century), a bracelet, bronze rings, cinerary urn fragments, 10 querns, whorls, and remains of stone cups. It was not known in 1932 where these finds were, but in 1940, a fragment of Roman glassware from a 1st-2nd century 'pillar-moulded' bowl found here was donated to the NMAS. Built into the N wall of the entrance passage, 2' from the doorway, is a cup-and-ring-marked stone measuring 3' by 2', and there is also a cup-marked stone 12' S of the entrance. It measures 4'6" x 2'6" x 6". It remains in a good state of preservation, and enclosed by a fence.
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 Tealing submitted by hamish
This little stone sits here unnoticed with its little collection of cup marks.
 Tealing submitted by hamish
The entrance with the cup and ring stone on the left. This stone is becoming seriously weathered.
 Tealing submitted by hamish
This stone at the top of the wall has strange markings on it. The marks on the top of the stone look a bit like Ogham.
 Tealing Stones submitted by hamish
It's such a shame that this is allowed to happen. A total lack of thought by those concerned.
 Tealing Stones submitted by hamish
This is the smaller stone, it was completely covered by cut down gorse bushes when I arrived. I tried to pull them off but they were too heavy.
 Tealing Stones submitted by hamish
This is the large stone seen edge on. The ambience of the site has diminished by the local farm piling cut gorse bushes over the stones.
 Tealing submitted by cosmic
South end of Soutterain
 Tealing submitted by cosmic
Inner wall - some six feet tall
 Tealing submitted by cosmic
Tealing entrance from Inside
 Tealing submitted by cosmic
Main corridor at Tealing
 Tealing submitted by cosmic
Tealing Sign
 Tealing Stones submitted by cosmic
Tealing Standing Stones in Angus at NO-416397 are more round than most standing stones. The larger one is about five feet high by the same across. The smaller one is about half that size. They are reached up a track from the cottages below Huntingfaulds.
 Tealing Stones submitted by cosmic
 Tealing Stones submitted by cosmic
 Tealing Stones submitted by cosmic
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Re: Tealing Stones (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 08 August 2004 | | Recently visited the Tealing Stones, and noticed just above the area on the small hill, a group of smaller stones that resembled a Hill Fort or Clachan . Do you have any info or ideas? | [ Reply to This ]
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