Parkhill, Sand Pit
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Sand And Gravel Workings (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S)
Site Name Parkhill, Sand Pit
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Sand And Gravel Workings (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S)
Canmore ID 19515
Site Number NJ81SE 13
NGR NJ 891 147
NGR Description NJ c. 891 147
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19515
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish New Machar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ81SE 13 c. 891 147.
In 1867 a cist was opened while making a railway cutting at Parkhill. It contained a type Ca Beaker and human bones. The beaker and skull are in the anthropological Museum of the Marischal College, Aberdeen In 1881, and described as coming from the same spot, a short cist was found in a mound of sand and gravel within a hundred yards (north-east) of Parkhill Station by workmen digging for gravel.
The cist contained a type Ca beaker, fragments of human and animal bone and some vegetable charcoal. This latter beaker is in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (Accession no. EG2).
W Ferguson 1882; A Low 1905; J Abercromby 1912; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1934.
These two cists were found in 1867 and 1881 respectively, the first during the excavation of a railway cutting, the second in a sand-pit about 100m to the NE. A Beaker (NMS: EG 2) from the latter is in the Royal Museum of Scotland; the artefacts that were recovered from the former are held in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen:
ABDUA: 14227. Human bones.
ABDUA: 14235. Human bones.
ABDUA: 14822. Fibrous vegetable matter.
ABDUA: 14823. Four stone pebbles.
ABDUA: 14824. Pig bones.
ABDUA: 14825. Deer bones.
ABDUA: 19702. Beaker.
The site of the sand-pit is now occupied by a modern house and its garden.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 10 September 2002.
