Tealing Earth House

  • Tealing, Angus

 

Getting here

Tealing Earth House

Close to the village of Balgray 5m N of Dundee off the A90.

This site is accessed through working farmland. To keep you and the livestock safe, please follow the Scottish Outdoor Access Code and keep dogs on leads.

Grid reference - NO 412 381.

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Opening times

Open:
1 Apr to 30 Sept

Closed:
1 Oct to 31 Mar

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Facilities

A small building that looks like a house but is Tealing Dovecot

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Tealing Dovecot
The red stoned Claypotts Castle with its striking circular towers and asymetric layout.

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Claypotts Castle
A tall Pictish cross-slab with a prominent, ornate cross carved on the front. Detail shows a hunting scene and a boat.

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St Orland's Stone
The imposing Broughty Castle from a distance, with a beach at low tide in the foreground

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Broughty Castle
A detailed view of Eassie Sculptured Stone. The back of the stone is decorated with a number of things including a double-disc and z-rod, a Pictish beast, three men with cloaks carrying spears and several cows with scroll joints.

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Eassie Sculptured Stone
Several stone lined ditches that once used to be the cellar of a round house

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Ardestie Earth House
A series of stone walls, partly filled in with soil and covered in grass. Fields in the background.

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Carlungie Earth House
The tall church spire and ruins of Restenneth Priory on a field surrounded by trees

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Restenneth Priory
Several stone lined ditches that once used to be the cellar of a round house

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Ardestie Earth House
A series of stone walls, partly filled in with soil and covered in grass. Fields in the background.

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Carlungie Earth House
Boggy landscape leading to a hill

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Brown and White Caterthuns
Several grass covered ramparts circling each other

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Chesters Hill Fort
A narrow underground passage made from stones

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Culsh Earth House
The ancient ramparts of a hill fort in the beautiful Pentland hills

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Castlelaw Hill Fort
The imposing ruin of Auchindoun Castle in front of a dramatic and cloudy sky

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Auchindoun Castle
An aerial shot showing the foundations of a broch surrounded by a network of large ramparts and ditches

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Edin's Hall Broch

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