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Bractullo
Cist (Early Bronze Age), Axe (Stone)(Neolithic), Beaker (Early Bronze Age), Implement (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Knife(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Polisher (Stone)(Early Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool)(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Bractullo
Classification Cist (Early Bronze Age), Axe (Stone)(Neolithic), Beaker (Early Bronze Age), Implement (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Knife(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age), Polisher (Stone)(Early Bronze Age), Scraper (Tool)(S) (Flint)(Early Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Bractullo 2
Canmore ID 34670
Site Number NO54NW 18
NGR NO 524 473
NGR Description NO c. 524 473
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/34670
- Council Angus
- Parish Kirkden
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO54NW 18 524 473.
NO 524 473. A short cist was found in December 1966 when ploughing on Bractullo farm. It was covered with two grey sandstone slabs just over 1ft below ground level. Measuring internally 3ft 8ins long, 2ft 6ins wide, and 2ft deep, it was of unusual construction, its sides being made up of several sandstone slabs. The floor of the cist also consisted of a large thin sandstone slab, which ran under the end-stones but stopped short of the side-stones. It contained a crouched inhumation accompanied by a beaker, also a disc-shaped pebble 'burnisher', a plano- convex knife and two other knife fragments, the butt end of a polished stone axe-head, two scrapers and several pieces of struck flint. The contents of the cist were donated to Dundee Museum (Accession nos: 1969-244:1-16).
J D Boyd 1967; H Coutts 1971.
Note (1978)
Bractullo 2 NO 524 473 NO54NW
Ploughing in 1966 revealed a cist which contained an inhumation accompanied by a Beaker (DMAG 1969-244: 1) and an assortment of stone implements (DMAG 1969-244: 2-16).
RCAHMS 1978
(DES, 1967, 1-2; Coutts 1971, 45, no. 77)
