Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663029

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH78NW 15 c. 736 890

For Skibo Castle (NH 73624 89052) and associated buildings, see NH78NW 13.00.

A stone cist, containing fragments of a human skeleton in a crouched position, was found about 1903 by workmen excavating a sand-pit near Skilbo Castle. The bones were later placed in a coffin and buried in the churchyard.

W Calder 1949.

Find-spot not located; no further information.

Visited by OS (E G C) 8 June 1963.

No change

Visited by OS (J M) 10 December 1980.