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Burnhead Of Monboddo
Cist (Prehistoric)
Site Name Burnhead Of Monboddo
Classification Cist (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 36437
Site Number NO77NW 12
NGR NO 7481 7918
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36437
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fordoun
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO77NW 12 7481 7918.
(NO 7481 7918) Red Granite Cist found (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A large block of Granite, scooped out 'like a ladle', was found in 1813 in a field called 'the Hungrils'. The hole was covered by a 'large boulderstone' and contained burnt ashes and 'sone other sepulture remains'. The block was embedded in rich black mould 3ft deep in a gravel knoll some 12 or 14ft deep. The cist was broken and no trace of it can now be found.
Name Book 1863.
The site falls in a cultivated field. No futher information.
Visited by OS (R L) 5 December 1967.
Field Visit (October 1981)
Burnhead of Monboddo 2 NO 748 791 NO77NW 12
Cropmarks on a knoll 260m ESE of Burnhead of Monboddo farmhouse reveal what may be a part of a ring-ditch. A cist-like structure, containing 'ashes and some other sepufture remains' found in 1813, may have come from nearby. Nothing can be seen on the ground.
RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981
(Name Book, Kincardine, No. 9, p. 89)
