Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710147

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT04SE 21 0954 4041.

(Name: NT 0954 4041) Stone Coffins or Kistvaens found (NAT)

OS 6" map (1957)

The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) states that several cists, nearly all of which contained human bones, have from time to time been found here, while the New Statistical Account (NSA) records that when the road was being "opened up" about 1820, the labourers came upon several cists containing human bones.

Name Book 1856; NSA (J Alpine) 1845; RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958

An accurate siting for these finds could not be ascertained. No further information.

Visited by OS (RD) 22 July 1971