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Loch More

Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker (Bronze Age)

Site Name Loch More

Classification Cist (Bronze Age), Beaker (Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 4753

Site Number NC33NW 1

NGR NC 3357 3628

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Eddrachillis
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC33NW 1 3357 3628.

NC 336 363. A short cist, containing a short-necked beaker, but with no signs of a burial, was found in November 1967, near the top of a gravel mound beside the road along Loch More.

The fragments of the beaker, damaged on discovery, have been given to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] by the finder, Robert Ross, a roadman.

NMAS 1968; Information from The Northern Times (with photograph) 17 November 1967.

NC 336 362. Beaker, donated to the NMAS by R Ross, Achriesgill, Lairg.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1971.

Three sides of the cist survive in the top side of an old gravel pit at NC 3357 3628. The N side is missing. The cist is oriented N-S. It measures 0.9m x 0.6m x 0.5m deep. It has been inserted into an old land surface and since covered by 0.5m of peat. No trace of a cairn. Three slabs, probably from the cist, lie below it in the bottom of the gravel pit.

Visited by OS (J M) 20 August 1974.

No change to the previous field report.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 6 June 1980.

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