Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746783

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ71NE 101 7795 1948

NJ 779 194. A short cist was discovered while digging in a garden, c10.75m NE of one of the avenues leading to Broomend of Crichie henge (NJ71NE 6). A large cracked capstone 1.40m by 1m by 0.16m thick

overlay the cist. This in turn had been covered by a small cairn of water-rounded stones. The cist was well built with clay lutting in the corners, forming tight joints. No artefacts or skeletal material was found within the infilled cist.

Sponsor: Grampian Regional Council.

M Greig and AN Shepherd 1993.

NMRS, MS/712/6.

There is no change to the existing record.

Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 29 October 1996.