Archaeology Notes

Event ID 791164

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791164

NJ20NE 110 2841 0850

Cemy [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.

This rectangular burial-ground lies on a sloping terrace on the N side of the River Don, and is flanked on the W by the Allt Coire Tholl. The enclosing wall is of coped rubble and mortar, with a wrought iron gate bearing a plaque recording the construction in 1869.

The burial-ground contains numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century stones, including a group commemorating the Tennant family of Edinglassie. A stone of 1860 in the SW corner marks the grave of a young woman who perished ?on the Leicht?, and beside it a crudely shaped and inscribed slab marks that of an unknown man found on the Lecht in 1937. The oldest decipherable date noted was 1826, although a roughly shaped granite headstone against the S dyke, propped on its side and partly buried, bears an incised cross, the letters IM, and what appears to be the date 17--; the rest of the date is concealed beneath the turf.

The oldest stones all lie towards the lower, S end of the present enclosure, and appear to correspond with the area of a smaller, subcircular burial-ground depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet lxviii).

Visited by RCAHMS (IF), 10 July 1996.