Knockquharn
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cup (Steatite)
Site Name Knockquharn
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cup (Steatite)
Alternative Name(s) Knockwhern
Canmore ID 18514
Site Number NJ70NE 2
NGR NJ 768 074
NGR Description NJ c. 768 074
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18514
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Echt
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ70NE 2 c. 768 074.
(Marginal) A stone cup of steatite, decorated with an incised herring-bone pattern round the lip, measuring 4 1/8ins in diameter x 3 ins high, and having a handle at one side of the lip, was found in 1820 in a cairn at Knockwhern [Knockquharn], Echt. It was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by the Hon Lady Binning through James F Richardson. (Acc. No. AQ 52.)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1932.
Nothing is visible of this cairn in the fields around Knockquharn, which are now under arable cultivation. A steatite cup (NMS AQ 52) was recovered from the cairn in 1820.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 9 August 1996.
