Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714134

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SW 19 248 745.

(NT 248 745) A cist was found in the summer of 1822 when digging the foundation of a house on the W side of Royal Circus. When opened, the form of a skeleton was discernible, lying with the head to the S, but it crumbled to dust on being touched, only some fragments of teeth remaining. The cist was at a considerable depth, in a gravel bank.

D Wilson 1891; J Skene 1831.

No further information.

Visited by OS (J L D) 28 December 1953.