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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 690569
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690569
NO54SW 12 5221 4174.
(NO 5221 4174) Cairn (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map, (1970)
A cairn, extending over 1/4 acre, was situated on the high ground of Skichen Farm. Hundreds of cartloads of stones were obtained from it. "Several stone coffins containing urns were found in different parts of the cairn, about 6ft below the surface, and each of the urns contained some fragments of bones". Two of the urns were intact, one of which a food vessel is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) donated by Dr R Dickson in 1866 (Accession no. EE 33).
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; NMAS 1892.
Although there is a considerable scatter of stones at this site, there are no intelligible remains of a cairn.
Visited by OS (RD) 12 May 1966.
