Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663431

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH84NW 49 c. 84 49

Two beakers, found in the same cist in Cawdor parish, were in Nairn Museum at the end of the 19th century, and possibly still there in the 1920s. In 1888 they were described as 'a very fine Urn of the tall thin-lipped variety with bulging sides, 7 1/2 inches in height, and the fragments of another'. A third beaker, referred to in 1893 as being 'a still finer specimen (than those in the Museum)' was at Cawdor Castle at the end of the 19th century, and possibly still there in the 1920s. The present location of these beakers is not known. Their descriptions do not provide enough information to identify them with the three described on NH84NW 39.

J Anderson and G F Black 1888; G Bain 1893; G Bain 1928; I C Walker 1967; I C Walker and A S Henshall 1968.