Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667382

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ46NE 18 4930 6542

(NJ 4928 6543 and 4931 6542). Tumuli (NR), A Stone Coffin containing 2 Urns found here.

OS 25" map, Banffshire, (1868).

See also NJ46NE 6 and NJ46NE 7.

Two cairns extant in 1867; when it was recorded that one had been opened by the Factor and produced a cist with two urns.

About 1897 the more easterly, said to have been an artificial hillock of gravel some 30yds long, had been levelled by gravel digging, but the more westerly was an almost circular mound, 40' in diameter and 6' high. A large cinerary urn and two smaller urns were reputed to have been found in the eastern cairn during gravel digging in 1820; and about 1864 a short cist containing a small broken urn was found in the north part of the western cairn, another small cist in its south part and a small urn near its centre (? the finds reported to the OS).

In 1897, about 18 yards from the north cist in the western cairn, workmen laying a track for the Cullen water system recovered from their trench an inverted cinerary urn and another small urn (upright and holding a cremation) about 2' from it; with the urns were a barbed-and-tanged arrowhead and a chisel-headed bone pin. The finds

were presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).

Name Book 1867; W Cramond 1895; W Cramond 1897; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1897.

The remains of the easterly cairn, a mound of small stones and earth, c. 10.8m in diameter and 2.0m high, severely mutilated on the north side and completely covered by heather and fir-trees, were located and resurveyed at 1/2500.

No remains of the westerly cairn were found.

Visited by OS (RD), 7 August 1964.

No change.

Visited by OS (RL), 19 July 1967.