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Loanleven

Cist(S) (Prehistoric), Cremation (Prehistoric), Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible), Human Remains (Prehistoric), Inscribed Stone (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Whetstone (Period Unknown)

Site Name Loanleven

Classification Cist(S) (Prehistoric), Cremation (Prehistoric), Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible), Human Remains (Prehistoric), Inscribed Stone (Prehistoric), Ring Ditch (Prehistoric), Food Vessel (Bronze Age), Whetstone (Period Unknown)

Alternative Name(s) Almondbank; Methven Loch

Canmore ID 26804

Site Number NO02NE 89

NGR NO 0543 2577

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

C14 Radiocarbon Dating

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Artefact photographs: Loanleven ring marked stone.
Artefact photographs: Loanleven ring marked stone.Loanleven, NO02NE 89, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoLoanleven, NO02NE 89, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Methven
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO02NE 89 0543 2577

Four cists and a segment of an enclosing, stone-filled, ring-ditch exposed during quarrying and excavated.

Cist 1, aligned E-W, inhumation with head at E end; ring-marked stone, reused, formed S side of cist.

Cist 2, aligned N-S, cremation with probable Food Vessel, disturbed in antiquity.

Cist 3, aligned NE-SW, inhumation with head at NE end.

Cist 4, disturbed by gravel extraction; cremation with associated burnt flint/chert implement with fine serrated edge.

Ring-ditch, 1.25m wide, 0.65m deep; enclosure reconstructed as c 20m internal diameter; primary silting of ditch suggestive of external bank; feature later back-filled with stone; whetstone recovered from back-fill.

C E Lowe 1988

The ring-marked cist slab from Cist 1 is now in Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Acc No: 1990.218.

M D King 1991d.

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