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Whitestone
Cist (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S) (Period Unassigned), Scraper (Tool)(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whitestone
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Beaker(S) (Period Unassigned), Scraper (Tool)(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Whitehouse Farm
Canmore ID 19343
Site Number NJ80NW 11
NGR NJ 8094 0681
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19343
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Skene
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ80NW 11 8094 0681
See also NJ80NW 10.
In March, 1905, a short cist containing an adult male skeleton, three flint scrapers, charcoal, and two EBA beakers (Types Ca and Cb), was found in a field on Whitehouse Farm, Skene, about ten miles SE of Pittodrie. The beakers are now at Aberdeen, and are listed by Abercromby as nos. 232 and 233.
(See also NJ80NW 10 - Three Urn Burials).
J G Callander 1906; M E C Mitchell 1934; W D Simpson 1925
Mr W Troup (farmer, Whitestone) indicated a slight grassy hollow at NJ 8094 0681 as the site of the discovery of the cist.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 November 1961
(Name cited as Whitehouse Farm: additional bibliography listed).
NMRS, MS/712/74.
There are no visible remains of this cist, which was found in 1905 on a very slight rise in an arable field 220m E of Whitestone farmsteading (NJ80NW 68). Artefacts found in the cist are now held in Marischal Museum, Aberdeen:
ABDUA: 14220. Human bones.
ABDUA: 14837. Charcoal.
ABDUA: 14847. Three flint scrapers
ABDUA: 19698. Beaker.
ABDUA: 19699. Beaker.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 21 August 1996.
