Mains Of Airlie
Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation (Prehistoric), Beaker (Bronze Age)(Possible), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Site Name Mains Of Airlie
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Cremation (Prehistoric), Beaker (Bronze Age)(Possible), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 32387
Site Number NO35SW 45
NGR NO 3010 5076
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/32387
- Council Angus
- Parish Airlie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO35SW 45 3010 5076.
NO 301 508. An unpaved short cist, lying east to west and measuring 3' by 1' 10" by 2' 6", was found by workmen quarrying sand in a field at Mains of Airlie in May 1963. It lay in the side of a natural hillock, 3' 6" below the summit, and excavation by Coutts (1966) showed that its west end was partly covered by packing stones and small boulders. It contained a few cremated bones and fragments of an undecorated food-vessel, a rare type showing beaker influence. The fragments are now in Dundee Museum. (Accession No. 1969-247)
H Coutts 1966; 1971.
NO 3010 5076. A minor depression on the side of a pronounced sandy hillock fits the general description given by Coutts (1966). There are a number of stones and small boulders protruding from the sand, but these do not form an identifiable structure. Sited on 6" record sheet.
Visited by OS (MFJ) 10 March 1977.
Note (1983)
Mains of Airlie NO 301 507 NO35SW 46
In 1963 a cist containing a cremation and an undecorated vessel of Beaker or Food Vessel type (DMAG 1969-247) was found on Mains of Airlie farm.
RCAHMS 1983
(Coutts 1964, 160-1, 166; Coutts 1971a, 61, no. 87).
