Field Visit
Date April 1967
Event ID 1175104
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1175104
NM 897 397. The remains of a cist can be seen 27m S of the entrance-gate to Kintaline, immediately W of the wall bordering the W side of the public road. At the time of its discovery, about 1870 (Smith, 186), it was covered by a small cairn, measuring not more than 1.2m across. Nothing was found inside and all traces of the cairn have since disappeared. When the cist was re-examined in 1963 (Reid 1963), a large number of white quartz pebbles, many small fragments of bone, and a tooth were recovered from it. At the present time three flat slabs survive, but only one of these appears to be still in situ; it measures 0.8m by 0.6m and about 0.1m in thickness and is aligned approximately NE and SW with its bottom edge buried and its top edge protruding about 0.5m above ground-level. Its position suggests it may have been one of the side slabs of the cist. A second slab of similar size, which may have formed the opposite side of the cist, is leaning over at an angle some 0.5m to the NW, while a third slab is lying flat near by.
RCAHMS 1975, visited April 1967.
