Archaeology Notes
Event ID 664574
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NH79SE 18 7980 9081
NH 797 909. A short cist found in the forestry nursery at Hilton of Embo was exacavated in September 1979. It lay NW-SE and measured 0.96m by 0.72m internally; it had a massive capstone but no base-stone, nor was it luted. The contents consisted of a crouched skeleton, an all over corded beaker, five barbed and tanged arrowheads, a bracer (Atkinson's class B.1), a flint strike-a-light and an iron ore nodule.
All finds are in Invernes Museum (INVMG 980.15-19).
K Antonio, P Ashmore and R Gourlay 1979; G Harden 1985.
The precise find spot of the cist was pointed out by the head forester at NH 7980 9081.
Visited by OS, 2 December 1980.