Muie
Cist (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel
Site Name Muie
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Food Vessel
Canmore ID 5478
Site Number NC60SE 10
NGR NC 67 04
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5478
- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC60SE 10 67 04.
A cist, 3 1/2ft long and 3ft wide was opened by the author at Muie (NC 67 04). It contained a skeleton. "Under this skeleton and apparently in quite a different matrix were the pieces of a broken urn with the usual herring bone ornamentation, and among the fragments some black, greasy, charred matter, which seemed to me to contain fragments of bone. There was one well-finished flint arrowhead, which seemed to have formed a part of the contents of the urn. In this case there seemed to me to have been two different burials in the same cist."
L Tait 1870.
No further information found during field investigation.
Visited by OS (W D J) 7 July 1963.
The urn, a Food Vessel, has been restored and is in Dunrobin Museum (Accession no: 1896.1). It is 5ins high and 5.5ins rim diameter and 2.9ins at base. It is said to have been found in 1867.
Information from TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum by A S Henshall.
