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Publication Account
Date 1933
Event ID 1099551
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099551
Cist Burial, Harvieston.
A cist was discovered at Harvieston about the year 1804, when the western approach to the house was being made. It contained a finely decorated food-vessel 4 ½ inches in height, by 5 inches in diameter at the mouth, narrowing to 3 inches at the bottom. With it was a small oval flint knife, 1 ½ inches in length by 1 inch in breadth, formed of a flake, with the whitish chalk surface still covering one side, the other showing the bulb of percussion, and the edges worked sharp all round from the inner side of the flake only. Cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., xxix (1894-5), p. 107.
RCAHMS 1933.
