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Loanend

Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Loanend

Classification Cinerary Urn (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Hawk Hill

Canmore ID 18203

Site Number NJ62SW 21

NGR NJ 6052 2420

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Premnay
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Gordon
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ62SW 21 6052 2420.

(NJ 6052 2420) Urn found (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

An urn containing small pieces of bones and black earth was found during trenching about 1847 but it disintegrated on removal.

Name Book 1867.

No further information.

Visited by OS (ISS) 7 August 1973.

(Name cited as Hawk Hill).

NMRS, MS/712/60.

This urn (now lost) was found about 1847 whilst trenching what is now cultivated ground immediately SE of the recumbent stone circle NJ62SW 1.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 6 November 1996.

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