Quinish, Mull
Cist (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel
Site Name Quinish, Mull
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel
Canmore ID 22100
Site Number NM45SW 15
NGR NM 4150 5385
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilninian And Kilmore
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM45SW 15 4150 5385.
(NM 4150 5385) Bronze Age Cist found 1891 (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1976)
A food vessel, 5 1/2 ins high and 5 1/4 ins in diameter at the mouth, which was found in 1891 in a cist at Quinish (NM 415 542) is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (Accession no: EE 72). It was donated by James A Forsyth, Quinish, in 1893.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1893; F R Coles 1903; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972
Mr H Maclean (of Dervaig) indicated the findspot on the ground at NM 4150 5385. The cist was found while quarrying for gravel and the capstone is preserved in a flower bed by the front door of the house some 20m to the W.
Site surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (DWR) 9 May 1974
