Archaeology Notes

Event ID 686489

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO33NE 13 39 39.

Two short cists were found close together at Balcalk in 1880. The first contained an inhumation accompanied by fragments of an 'urn'. These were in the collection of John Sturrock, auctioned in 1889 (but 'not sold' according to annotated copy of the catalogue). The second cist contained a crouched inhumation accompanied by a Food Vessel, crescentic jet necklace, flint knife, and a fragment of a bronze pin. These articles are now in Royal Museum of Scotland (RMS EQ 218-221). (Cf NO33NE 12.)

J Sturrock 1880; 1889; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1891.