Note
Date 1984
Event ID 1196014
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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NO99NW 13 921 955.
The OS Name Book records the position of a cist found in 1817 on the line of the public road 40m SSW of Longhillock Cottages (NO 9213 9553) and of 'several stone coffins containing human bones and urns' found ' at various times' in a gravel pit immediately to the SE (NO 9214 9552); the latter includes a cist discovered in 1822, and probably at least two others in 1816 and 1845 respectively. The first to be discovered contained a skull; the second (1.8m in length, 0.7m in breadth at the SW end and 0.55m at the NE end and varied from 0.4m to 0.6m in depth) an extended inhumation accompanied by two Beakers (AUAM 240/5, the other lost); the third an inhumation with a small pile of flints in each corner of the cist (NMAS ET 16); and the fourth a Beaker (now lost). The last may be one of the two cists found 'about 1847', which are referred to by Jervise; each contained an 'urn' and in one there was a 'gold ring'. See also RCAHMS 1984 No. 58.
RCAHMS 1984
(A Thomson 1831; D Wilson 1863; Name Book 1864; Information from MS Notes in Aberdeen University Anthropological Museum Banchory House Museum Catalogue; A Jervise 1875-9; D L Clarke 1970)
