Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659463

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH15NE 1 1738 5883.

NH 173 589. A short cist containing a beaker burial was found, late in July 1959, during road straightening through a natural morainic hillock.(W G Bannerman, County Road Surveyor) Only a piece of charcoal was found with the beaker which is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) - EG 98.

PSAS 1964; A S Henshall and I H Longworth 1966

The find-spot was indicated on the ground by Mr. J. Gallagher, (Lochroque, Achnasheen, Ross and Cromarty) at NH 1738 5883.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 26 October 1966