Kintore, 'burgh Muir'
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Mould (Stone)
Site Name Kintore, 'burgh Muir'
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Mould (Stone)
Alternative Name(s) Borough Muir
Canmore ID 18582
Site Number NJ71NE 26
NGR NJ 778 164
NGR Description NJ c. 778 164
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NE 26 c. 778 164.
An Early Bronze Age stone mould, found in or before 1855 in a cairn on the Borough Moor, Kintore, is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (Accession no: CM 1). It is oblong, measuring 23.9 by 14 by 4.5cms, and on it are matrices for a flat axe, 16.2 by 9.4cms, a flat casting, probably a knife blade, 9.3
by 3.7cms, and possibly for two bars.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1859; 1868; D Britton 1963; J M Coles 1971.
The Burgh Muir (centred NJ 778 164) is now afforested, and there is no local knowledge of any recent finds.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 March 1964.
(Mould for flat axe and bars). Single find, in a cairn on Borough Muir. Mould, grey stone, smooth surface, neatly shaped, slight darkening in flat axe matrix. Face A: flat axe, length 162mm, cutting edge 94mm, max depth 10mm; blade (?), length 93mm, width 37mm, max depth 6mm. Face B: two bars (?). NMA (CM 1).
P K Schmidt and C B Burgess 1981.
Noted as found 14 February 1855.
NMRS, MS/712/67.
The exact location of the cairn in which an Early Bronze Age stone mould (NMS CM 1) was found before 1855, is not recorded.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 25 October 1996.
