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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 659463
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659463
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
