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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674192

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/674192

NM45SW 15 4150 5385.

(NM 4150 5385) Bronze Age Cist found 1891 (NAT)

OS 1:10000 map (1976)

A food vessel, 5 1/2 ins high and 5 1/4 ins in diameter at the mouth, which was found in 1891 in a cist at Quinish (NM 415 542) is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (Accession no: EE 72). It was donated by James A Forsyth, Quinish, in 1893.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1893; F R Coles 1903; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972

Mr H Maclean (of Dervaig) indicated the findspot on the ground at NM 4150 5385. The cist was found while quarrying for gravel and the capstone is preserved in a flower bed by the front door of the house some 20m to the W.

Site surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (DWR) 9 May 1974

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