Hilton Of Embo
Cist (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Period Unassigned), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hilton Of Embo
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Period Unassigned), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dornoch Nursery
Canmore ID 14841
Site Number NH79SE 18
NGR NH 7980 9081
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14841
- Council Highland
- Parish Dornoch
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH79SE 18 7980 9081
NH 797 909. A short cist found in the forestry nursery at Hilton of Embo was exacavated in September 1979. It lay NW-SE and measured 0.96m by 0.72m internally; it had a massive capstone but no base-stone, nor was it luted. The contents consisted of a crouched skeleton, an all over corded beaker, five barbed and tanged arrowheads, a bracer (Atkinson's class B.1), a flint strike-a-light and an iron ore nodule.
All finds are in Invernes Museum (INVMG 980.15-19).
K Antonio, P Ashmore and R Gourlay 1979; G Harden 1985.
The precise find spot of the cist was pointed out by the head forester at NH 7980 9081.
Visited by OS, 2 December 1980.
