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Woodhill
Cist (Prehistoric), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Woodhill
Classification Cist (Prehistoric), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 27366
Site Number NO05SE 1
NGR NO 09 54
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/27366
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (9 May 1974)
NO05SE 1 09 54.
A cist, 40ins. by 25ins. and 23ins. deep, containing a skeleton on its side and a probable food vessel about 6ins. in diameter and about 4ins. high, was opened at Woodhill, Perthshire, in 1857. A stereoscopic photograph of the cist and a photograph of the urn were donated to the Soc of Ants of Scot in 1860.
(Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1862)
No further information.
Visited by OS (AA) 9 May 1974
Note (1990)
A cist, aligned NW to SE and measuring 1.02m by 0.64m and 0.58m in depth, was found in 1857. It contained a crouched inhumation accompanied by a Food Vessel (now lost); a photograph of the pottery and stereoscopic photographs of the cist are in the Department of Archaeology, the Royal Museum of Scotland.
RCAHMS 1990
PSAS 3, 364
