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Auchnarie
Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Auchnarie
Classification Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auchranie
Canmore ID 20755
Site Number NJ95SW 3
NGR NJ 918 545
NGR Description Centred NJ 918 545
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20755
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Strichen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ95SW 3 c 918 545.
A large unornamented cinerary urn in fragments, found inverted, and covering, apparently, a quantity of burnt bones, at Auchranie, Strichen (? Auchnarie - NJ 918 545) was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by John Keith, farmer, Auchranie, in April 1867.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1887 (Donations).
John Keith was the farmer at Auchrynie, in Old Deer parish at NJ 964 525. (ONB 1880). Possibly this urn is one of those recorded on NJ95SE 7.
Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) 1880.
Visited by OS (AA) 17 April 1968.
