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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 704162
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/704162
NS65NW 7 6175 5899.
(NS 6175 5899) Cist found 1787 (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
Cist, Blairbeth Golf Course (Site): On what was formerly Mill Farm, a cist, measuring about 2.0m in length and 0.6m in depth, was discovered seventy years before the compilation of the OS Name Books in 1857-8; it contained an 'urn', but there is no further information about the vessel or the burial-ritual.
Name Book 1857-8; RCAHMS 1978, visited 1973.
When visited in 1954, the find-spot of the cist lay in a ploughed field. No surface finds were made, and no additional information added.
Visited by OS (J F C) 25 March 1954.
