Murray, H. K. and Murray, J. (2016). Kintore East, Tofthills, Aberdeenshire. Aberdeenshire: Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS). https://doi.org/10.5284/1048624. Cite this using datacite

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Title:		 Kintore East, Tofthills, Aberdeenshire
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Series:		 Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS) unpublished report series
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Abstract:		 A 7% evaluation was undertaken on a 45.5 hectare site SE of Kintore, on the S side of the river Don, prior to planned development for 600 houses and associated infrastructure. Although there were a small number of very truncated features and a thin scatter of prehistoric finds in several areas, there were three concentrations of significant survival on slopes where greater depths of topsoil had accumulated, protecting the underlying archaeology. One area, on a S facing slope, included truncated pits and hearths with pottery and lithics of possible early Neolithic date but two radiocarbon dates indicate intermittent occupation on the area to the later Bronze Age and Iron Age (749-403calBC : SUERC-67866 and 66-223cal AD: SUERC-67867 ). A second well-preserved area of prehistoric settlement lay on a sheltered SE facing slope where there was evidence of several possible round houses with associated radiocarbon dates of 1686-1526calBC (SUERC-67869) and 1611-1446calBC (SUERC-67868). Some 200m to the S, across a stream, a hearth, possibly associated with some non-metallurgical industrial process, was dated to 1659-1507calBC (SUERC-67870), although pottery and lithics suggest there had also been earlier activity in the area. Further N, nearer the modern farm, the evaluation revealed a scatter of truncated pits associated with furnace bottoms and slag relating to small scale iron working, two features being dated to 128-323cal AD (SUERC-67875) and 980-1151cal AD (SUERC-67874) respectively.
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Author:		 Hillary K Murray
J Murray
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Publisher:		 Murray Archaeological Services Ltd (MAS)
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Other Person/Org:		 Historic Environment Scotland (OASIS Reviewer)
Aberdeenshire, Angus, Moray and Aberdeen City (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication:		 2016
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Site: Kintore East, Tofthills
County: Aberdeenshire
Parish: KINTORE
Country: Scotland
Grid Reference: 380308, 815119 (Easting, Northing)
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PREHISTORIC (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) LITHICS (Find)
PREHISTORIC (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) SHERD (Object England)
PREHISTORIC (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) PIT (Monument Type Scotland)
PREHISTORIC (ScAPA : Scottish Archaeological Periods & Ages) SETTLEMENT (Monument Type Scotland)
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OASIS Id: mas1-266859
OBIB: MAS 2016-04
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Created Date:		 31 Jul 2018