Aboyne
Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Souterrain(S) (Prehistoric), Armlet(S) (Bronze)
Site Name Aboyne
Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Souterrain(S) (Prehistoric), Armlet(S) (Bronze)
Canmore ID 17010
Site Number NJ40SE 13
NGR NJ 4898 0303
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17010
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Coull
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ40SE 13 4898 0303.
(NJ 4898 0303) Bronze Armour found AD 1860 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
This 'armour', found about five years prior to 1867, is to be identified with the three massive bronze armlets which were found together while ploughing the ground in this area for the first time, when, according to Michie, two underground houses, near which were two very large and well-defined enclosures, were destroyed. Smith suggests that there may have been a fourth armlet, which was overlooked.
The armlets, which were in Inverurie Castle in 1968, are of native workmanship, and dateable to A.D. 50-150.
Casts are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS, FA 20-22).
Name Book 1867; J Smith 1881; J Anderson 1883; J Michie 1910; M Simpson 1968.
