Kemhill
Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kemhill
Classification Beaker (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kemnay; Milltown Croft
Canmore ID 18683
Site Number NJ71NW 6
NGR NJ 7228 1501
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18683
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kemnay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NW 6 7228 1501.
(NJ 7228 1501). Part of a beaker, 3 3/8" (86mm) across the base, found in a gravelly mound in the angle where the road to Castle Fraser branches off the main Deeside turnpike road just W of Kemnay was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by W D Simpson.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1937.
Fragmentary: attributed to Developed Northern British (N2) group.
D L Clarke 1970.
The findspot of this fragment of Beaker is a featureless grass-grown glacial mound of gravel and sand.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 4 December 1997.
Contrary to the account above, the PSAS article specifies that the Beaker was exhibited to the Society and not donated to the Museum.
Information from Mr T Cowie (RMS), 14 April 1998.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1937.
(Name cited as Milltown Croft).
NMRS, MS/712/66.
