Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664960

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH87NE 8 8639 7570.

(NH 8639 7570) A skull and bones 'all bunched up' found in a small stone-lined grave with a slab on top, while digging a well in 1932, in the back garden of Johnstone's the butchers at Balintore. Robb (J Robb, 16 Underhill Road, Maston, Glos), who assisted in the digging, has no recollection of what happened to the burial or the grave-slabs. Johnstone is still the butcher at Balintore. (See NH87NE 5 for possible Bronze Age cemetery).

Information from J W Howdle to OS, 7 August 1961.

Mr Johnstone (J Johnstone, 7 Main Street, Balintore) indicated the find-spot of the grave at NH 8639 7570. He stated that the remains were mutilated by the construction of the well but were left in situ.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (I S S) 4 September 1972.

Cist burial.

CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.