Rogart
Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age)
Site Name Rogart
Classification Cairn (Bronze Age), Cist (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Glebe Of Rogart
Canmore ID 5988
Site Number NC70SW 32
NGR NC 739 034
NGR Description NC c. 739 034
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Rogart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC70SW 32 c. 739 034.
A tumulus 'was opened lately by dikers erecting a fence around the glebe (of Rogart: NC 739 034). .... They found in the centre of it a stone coffin containing mouldered bones, and the blade of a dirk, or short dagger ... coated with gold, and marked with lines, crossing on another at acute angles, and terminating in the point'.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
A bronze blade 'recently' found in a cabinet at Dunrobin had a note attached which proved to Joass's satisfaction tht it was the blade referred to by MacKenzie (supra). Full description. Rev J A Joass sent the blade to J A Smith who exhibited it to the Society on 12th January 1874.
J A Smith 1875.
The blade is classified as a LBA razor (Class I) but could not be located.
C M Piggott 1946.
The razor could not be traced at Dunrobin Museum.
Visited by OS (R B) 9 February 1966.
The blade is classified as a MBA razor but no location is given. (See also NC70SW 15).
J M Coles 1966.
Bronze razor (Accession no. X48) from a cairn between Strathbrora and Strathfleet Rogart, in a cist with cremation found before 1834.
Information from TS Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum by A S Henshall, 1969.
