Catterline
Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker
Site Name Catterline
Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker
Alternative Name(s) Brigstanes Cottage; Roadside Of Catterline
Canmore ID 36764
Site Number NO87NE 10
NGR NO 8579 7886
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kinneff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO87NE 10 8579 7886.
(NO 8580 7887) Bronze Age Cist found 1970 (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1974)
A short cist was found in a natural deposit of sand and gravel on 15th February 1970 by William Adams of Brigstane Cottage, Catterline, when moving part of a bank which protruded into his garden. It contained the inhumation of a five year old child, accompanied by a beaker, which contained a fragment of glass and the stem epidermis of grain.
A Small 1970; RCAHMS 1985
The contents of the cist were sent to Aberdeen University for examination. Mr Adams indicated the find spot at NO 8579 7886 (which falls within the garden of Brigstane Cottage; the published position, outside the garden, appears to have been slightly mis-plotted). The cist has been destroyed.
Visited by OS (RL) 3 April 1970
Note (1982)
Brigstanes Cottage, Roadside of Catterline NO 857 788 NO87NE 10
In 1970 a cist was discovered in the garden of Brigstanes Cottage; it contained the inhumation of a child accompanied by a Beaker.
RCAHMS 1982
(DES, 1970, 27; NMRS, MS/225)
