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Event ID 585120
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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A cist, 4' x 2" x 18" wide was found on 23rd March 1887, close beside the West Lodge, Mountstuart, above Kerrycroy burn. In his letter describing the find, the Marquess of Bute says the cover-stone was found c 18" below the surface of a mound hitherto thought natural, but which he now thought must be the remains of a tumulus. The cist contained a crouched burial with a (? trepanned) skull, a jet necklace and a food vessel (type C2), also what had possibly been a bronze ring and pin.
The finds were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] in 1888 - Accession nos EQ - 100-102.
J K Hewison 1893; T H Bryce 1904; NMAS 1892; V G Childe 1946
