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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CAMP [Tillymuick] Camp
Camp
Camp
Mr Duffus, Bogside
Mr John Tough, Auchleven
Revd [Reverend] John Wilson
044 A circular embankment, generally about 2 feet in height and 5 or 6 feet broad at the base, on the summit of Tillymuick, pretty perfect in some places and considerably worn down in others. It is so situated on the hill, that from any point of the embankment the whole of the valley in any one direction is visible. Near the centre is another small circular embankment. As this place is considered by some persons to have been connected with the Romans, the centre circle is supposed to have been set apart for the use of the commander or Cheif. The Revd [Reverend] John Wilson is of opinion that it has been only an extensive cattle fold, into which they were driven in dangerous and lawless times. The old Aberdeen and Garioch Road passes this place, but if the Roman Road did, no person in the district is aware of it. A number of Tumuli have been opened near the camp, when improving the land, containing sometimes bones, and sometimes flint arrowheads and black earth.

NB. This is evidently not Roman: it so resembles however the old British Camps, so abundant in the Country, that - I have described it as such in the Plan: - The enclosure is nearly 200 yards in diameter.
[Initialled] E.H.C.
Capt. R.E. [Captain Royal Engineers]
TUMULI [Tillymuick, nr summit] Tumulus
Tumulus
Mr Duffus
Mr John Tough
044 A small cairn of stones on Tillymuick, south of and close to the camp. It is of no great elevation, but is evidently artificial, and in appearance so much resembles the tumuli already opened in the parish of Oyne on the same hill, that there is little doubt, were it opened up, articles of the same description would be found in it, as were found in them.
TILLYMUICK [hill] Tillymuick
Tillymuick
Tillymuick
Tillymuick
Mr Duffus
Mr John Tough
Revd [Reverend] John Wilson
Statistical Account, page 692
044 A hill feature of inconsiderable height situated on the south side of the Gaudie and nearly opposite the Kirkton of Premnay. There is a Camp, (supposed by some to be Roman) and a number of Tumuli on its summit. "Opposite to the church on the south side of the Gady, Tillymuick rises, a bleak lumpish hill, of no great elevation or extent." Extract from Statistical Account of Aberdeenshire, 1843. - page 692.

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Parish of Premnay

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