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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698443

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS06NW 11 0257 6683.

NS 027 665. A cist was found in the spring of 1952 by Mr Lochhead of Kildavanan farm when his plough struck its cover-stone. Examined two years later by Miss Marshall, she recovered a food vessel and fragments of bone from it. The food vessel is now in Rothesay Museum. The cist lies just above the 300ft contour line below Cnoc-na-mhara on the hill face above Ettrick Bay.

D N Marshall 1955

NS 0257 6683. This cist has been destroyed, but Miss Marshall was able to point out its site on the map (D N Marshall, Kames Garden Cottage, Port Bannatyne).

Visited by OS (BS) 24 November 1976

Nothing is now visible of the cist that was found during ploughing in 1952 on the NW side of Cnoc-na-mhanan, a rocky spur on the SE flank of Eenan Hill. On the date of visit its site had recently been ploughed.

A cist had been discovered nearby in the 19th century (NS06NW 6), and a third was discovered in 2002 (NS06NW 87).

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, ARG) 17 March 2009.

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