Easter Delnies
Cist (Bronze Age)(Possible), Beaker (Bronze Age)
Site Name Easter Delnies
Classification Cist (Bronze Age)(Possible), Beaker (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 15111
Site Number NH85NE 25
NGR NH 855 562
NGR Description NH c. 855 562
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15111
- Council Highland
- Parish Nairn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH85NE 25 855 562.
A Beaker, now in Nairn Museum was, according to the label, 'found in a tomb at Easter Delnies (NH 855 562) on Cuthbertown, near Nairn'. This was presumably a cist burial.
Cuthbertown, which must have been a croft, lay a few hundred yards east of Easter Delnies.
The urn was presented to the museum by the widow of the third Clarke to own Achareidh House (NH 867 564) who died in 1959. His grandfather who bought the house in 1839 was apparently an antiquarian and was possibly associated with the discovery of the urn; he died in 1886.
Short neck type - N2 (2).
I C Walker 1964; D L Clarke 1970.
No further information.
Visited by OS (R L) 8 December 1970.
Note (1978)
Easter Delnies NH c. 855 562 NH85NE 25
An N3 Beaker found in a 'tomb' at Easter Delnies or Cuthbertown probably came from a cist.
RCAHMS 1978
Walker 1962; Clarke 1970, ii, 520, no. 1731
