Archaeology Notes

Event ID 733535

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/733535

NJ06SW 59 039 644.

On an east-facing sand ridge in the village of Findhorn, discovered during building operations, a cremation pit containing pyre debris and an inverted cordoned urn, 42cm tall; with a base diameter of 15cm, and a shoulder diameter of c28cm. The urn contained the cremated remains of a female, aged between 18 and 25 at death, and an infant between the third trimester and birth. They were accompanied by one star-shaped faience bead, twelve complete and eighteen fragmentary cylindrical segmented faience beads. A secondary cremation deposit lay in the upper fill of the pit and contained part of a star-shaped faience bead and a complete quoit-shaped faience bead, both unburnt, as well as a chunk of grey flint.

The objects are at present in Forres Museum.

I A G Shepherd and A N Shepherd 1989