Note
Date 1978
Event ID 1085780
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Cunninghar NS 925 970 NS99NW 1
A stone circle, said to measure about 18m in diameter and consisting of stones about 1.7m in average height, was destroyed at the end of the 19th century. In 1894 a cinerary urn (NMAS no. EA 140) was found ‘near the edge of the circle alongside where ne of the stones seems to have been’; a cist containing a food vessel (NMAS no. EE 154) and a crouched inhumation was discovered near the centre of the circle; the cover slab, which bore cup-and-ring markings, is now close to the former stables of Tillicoultry House (NS 924 975), but the decoration is no longer visible. In 1898 an empty cist was discovered within the central area of the circle. In 1914 a further Food Vessel (NMAS no. EE 155) was found in a fragmentary cist about 150m N of the site. A further food vessel was found in sand-digging in 1937 (NMAS no. L 1970.4) and an otherwise unrecorded cinerary urn was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1938 (NMAS no. EA 224)
RCAHMS 1978
(Stat Acct, xv, 1795, 214; Robertson, Black and Struthers 1895; PSAS, xxix, 1894-5, 105, no.3; Coles 1899, 358-65; PSAS, xlviii, 1913-14, 337-8; RCAHMS 1933, pp/326-7, nos.617 and 619; PSAS, lxxii, 1937-8, 273, no.4; Young 1938, 145; PSAS.xcvi, 1962-3, 364, no. 11; Morris 1968, 69, no.136)
