Blackstand
Cist (Prehistoric), Mound (Period Unassigned), Beaker (Prehistoric)
Site Name Blackstand
Classification Cist (Prehistoric), Mound (Period Unassigned), Beaker (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14539
Site Number NH76SW 8
NGR NH 7145 6070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14539
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromarty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH76SW 8 7145 6070.
(NH 7145 6070) This is an oval, gorse and broom covered mound in which a cist, with a skeleton and beaker, was found in or about 1940.
Henshall (1963) considers the mound, which measures 120' by 90' and approximately 7' high, more likely to be natural than artificial.
The cist was found, during the digging of trenches, in the northern side of the mound. The beaker, of B/C type, was built up of rings of clay. It was found and presented by Captain F W Colledge, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, 1 East Mayfield, Edinburgh, to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS- EG 90). The skeletal remains have been lost.
R B K Stevenson 1951; A A Woodham 1956; Information from A A Woodham to OS; A S Henshall 1963.
The find-spot was sited from the description given above to a natural mound, at NH 7146 6070, in a forestry plantation.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 January 1966.
Note (1979)
Blackstand NH 714 607 NH76SW 8
This cist was discovered about 1940; it contained what was probably an inhumation accompanied by an N/NR Beaker (NMAS EG 90).
RCAHMS 1979
Stevenson 1949; Woodham 1956, 79, 92, no. 63; Clarke 1970, ii, 521, no. 1761
