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Kilmaho
Human Remains(S) (Bronze Age), Short Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Awl (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Flake (Flint)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Knife(S) (Flint)(Bronze Age), Knife (Bronze)(Bronze Age)
Site Name Kilmaho
Classification Human Remains(S) (Bronze Age), Short Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Awl (Bronze)(Bronze Age), Flake (Flint)(Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Pottery)(Bronze Age), Knife(S) (Flint)(Bronze Age), Knife (Bronze)(Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 38404
Site Number NR62SE 14
NGR NR 6789 2419
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38404
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Killean And Kilchenzie
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR62SE 14 6789 2419.
(NR 6789 2419) Three Bronze Age Short Cists found AD 1959 (NAT)
OS 25" map (1960)
NR 6789 2419. Three Early Bronze Age short cists were discovered close together on the crest of a low-lying ridge in a pasture field on Kilmaho farm, in April 1959, and the site was examined on the 4th, 5th and 6th of the month by Mr J G Scott. The contents of the cists were removed and the site covered over again. There was no evidence of a cairn or mound over the cists. Full report forthcoming.
Visited by OS (JLD) 21 October 1959
Cists, Kilmaho (Sites): The following description and plan are based on the published report (J G Scott and Mrs Scott 1959), supplemented by additional information supplied by the excavator (J G Scott).
The cists were found during ploughing 135m SW of Kilmaho farmhouse, and 70m S of the public road, at a height of about 20m OD. Disposed in a line running approximately N and S, they were all about 0.6m deep and of slab construction; each cist was covered by a single large cap- stone buried slightly below ground surface, the deepest being 0.6m down.
Cists 1 and 3 were aligned NW and SE and cist 2 almost due E and W.
Cist 1, measuring 0.9m by 0.5m internally, had been previously disturbed and held the scattered remains of an adult inhumation.
Cist 2 measured 0.84m by 0.53m internally and contained a small flint flake and two incomplete adult inhumations, one overlying the other, the upper deposit being secondary to the lower.
Cist 3 was the best preserved; measuring 0.81m by 0.53m internally, it had a particularly massive cap-stone, and contained a crouched adult skeleton, a Food Vessel, two flint knives or scrapers, and a small riveted bronze knife. Lying on top of the bronze knife was a bronze awl together with several human teeth. The finds are now in Campbeltown Museum.
RCAHMS 1971.
(Flat rivetted knife-dagger). Two rivet-holes, with one loose peg-rivet; flat section. Present length 9.1cm, present width 3.5cm. Campbeltown Museum.
S Gerloff 1975.
