Inchnacaorach
Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inchnacaorach
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 15020
Site Number NH84NE 9
NGR NH 852 494
NGR Description NH c. 852 494
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15020
- Council Highland
- Parish Cawdor
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH84NE 9 852 494.
A short cist, containing a beaker, a crouched burial and three bone implements - evidently two awls and a chisel - was found in or before 1861 on the farm of Inchnacaorach (NH 852 494).
The site lay in an arable field part of which consisted of a low ridge. The cist lay 15" below the surface of one of the prominent knobs of this ridge (Information contained in letter from W A Stables to Earl of Cawdor, 13 April 1861).
The beaker - short neck, type N.3 (Clarke 1970) - and implements were presented to the British Museum by the Earl of Cawdor but the implements could not be traced in 1960. (Walker 1967) (Beaker: 1861, 6-27, 1-4).
Proc Soc Antiq Lond 1861; I C Walker 1967; D L Clarke 1970.
No further information.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 January 1971.
Note (1978)
lnchnavarach NH c.852 494 NH84NE 9
A cist containing an inhumation, an N3 Beaker, two bone awls and a bone chisel was found in or before 1861. The finds are preserved in the British Museum (1861, 6-27, 1-4).
RCAHMS 1978
Walker 1966, 100-1; Clarke 1970, ii, 520, no. 1730
