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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 687451
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/687451
NO35NE 18 3885 5823.
(NO 3885 5823) Bell Hillock (NAT)
Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)
A cairn opened by Mr Wilkie of Auchlishie some years before 1863, when he found an urn and a spearhead which in 1863 were in the possession of Miss Wilkie, Auchlishie (NO 391 572). It was again excavated in 1919 by the Rev T F Fyffe, vicar of West Cornforth, Durham. He found a cist containing an Early Bronze Age food vessel, with parts of a jet necklace and bracelet, now in Sunderland. Further excavations in 1961 revealed three successive layers of loose stonework, apparently indicating intermittent construction. A second cist was found 25ft (7.6m) east of that found in 1919; it contained cremated remains but no grave goods.
Name Book 1863; JBAA 1919; J M Haddow, J D Boyd and R B K Stevenson 1959; R Crerar 1961.
A grass covered barrow measuring 25.0m in diameter and standing to a height of 2.0m. Its middle has been mutilated, probably by excavation. The name could not be confirmed locally.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (BS) 10 January 1977.
