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Fettercairn House
Barrow (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age), Beaker (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)
Site Name Fettercairn House
Classification Barrow (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age), Beaker (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Strathywelll Belt
Canmore ID 36108
Site Number NO67SE 1
NGR NO 65335 74597
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36108
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fettercairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO67SE 1 6532 7459.
(NO 653 745) The base and part of the body of a short-necked beaker (Clarke's type N/4, but not included in his corpus) was found in the summer of 1941 in a sandy mound, 10ft high and 20ft in diameter, in Strathywell Belt on the E side of the Cairn o' Mount road opposite the Mains of Fasque. It was found by a contractor digging in the grounds of Fettercairn House and was given by Lt J D Hamilton, Royal Scots, to J T Ewen, Pitscandly, Forfar, whose wife donated it to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1947-8 (Accession no: EG 87). (Hamilton is Stevenson's authority for the siting.)
R B K Stevenson 1950; D L Clarke 1970.
At NO 6532 7459 is a natural sandy knoll some 20m in diameter and about 2.5m high, partially quarried from the SE. This is almost certainly where the beaker was found, but no one knows of it locally.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 August 1971.
Field Visit (March 1982)
Fettercairn House 1 NO 653 745 NO67SE 1
Situated on a gravel ridge in a plantation immediately E of the public road (B974), there is a barrow measuring 17m in diameter by 2m in height. In 1941 gravel-digging on the SE revealed a Beaker (NMAS EG 87).
RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982
(Stevenson 1948)
