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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 690720
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/690720
NO54NW 18 524 473.
NO 524 473. A short cist was found in December 1966 when ploughing on Bractullo farm. It was covered with two grey sandstone slabs just over 1ft below ground level. Measuring internally 3ft 8ins long, 2ft 6ins wide, and 2ft deep, it was of unusual construction, its sides being made up of several sandstone slabs. The floor of the cist also consisted of a large thin sandstone slab, which ran under the end-stones but stopped short of the side-stones. It contained a crouched inhumation accompanied by a beaker, also a disc-shaped pebble 'burnisher', a plano- convex knife and two other knife fragments, the butt end of a polished stone axe-head, two scrapers and several pieces of struck flint. The contents of the cist were donated to Dundee Museum (Accession nos: 1969-244:1-16).
J D Boyd 1967; H Coutts 1971.
