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Green Howe
Cairn (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze Age)
Site Name Green Howe
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Bronze Age), Razor (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Tullochvenus
Canmore ID 17473
Site Number NJ50NE 8
NGR NJ 5900 0846
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17473
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tough
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ50NE 8 5900 0846
(NJ 5900 0846) Cairn (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1959)
In a small cairn opened in 1842 was found an urn containing calcined bones and a Middle Bronze Age razor (now in Marischal College Museum, Aberdeen - Accession no. 248).
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; J Gillan 1863; Name Book 1865; W D Simpson 1943; J M Coles 1966.
No trace remains of this cairn.
Visited by OS (NKB) 24 September 1968.
Field Visit (16 July 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (23 August 1994)
There is nothing visible of the cairn recorded at this location on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet lxxi).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 23 August 1994
