Cunrie Craig
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cunrie Craig
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lady Croft; Brankston
Canmore ID 17771
Site Number NJ53SE 2
NGR NJ 5910 3076
NGR Description NJ 5910 3076 and NJ 5911 3077
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17771
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Insch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ54SE 2 5910 3076 and 5911 3077.
(NJ 5910 3076 and NJ 5911 3077) Stone Cists found AD 1847 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
In 1847 Mr Meldrum of Lady Croft while trenching his land, came upon two stone cists, each containing a full-sized skeleton of a man which fell to pieces on exposure to the air.
Name Book 1867; Information from Mr Meldrum, Lady Croft.
The field in which the two sites lie is under crop. At the sites the ground rises and is more stony, while the crop growth is stunted, futher investigation was not possible.
Visited by OS (EGC) 27 September 1961.
The sites of these cists lie in a featureless cultivated field about 400m S of Brankston farmsteading (NJ53SE 20).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 2 April 1996.
