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Desk Based Assessment
Date 25 June 1976
Event ID 884050
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/884050
NS 019 611. A group of three cists, as shown on plan, was found in 1960 on the 50' raised beach, 150 yds from the sea. When excavated, a jet bead was found among the earth filling of cist 1. Cist 2, also earth-filled, was ruinous. Nothing was found in it. Cist 3, a rebated cist, contained the skeleton of a woman, accompanied by a flint knife and a lignite collar of 135 beads (now in Rothesay Museum). The latter has been dated approximately to 1500 BC.
Mr Boag, the farmer who found the cists, stated that some years ago, a flint knife, which has since been lost, was ploughed up near the find spot of the cists.
Information from OS (IF) 25 June 1976
D N Marshall 1963; I S Munro 1973
