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Mosshead Farm

Barrow (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn

Site Name Mosshead Farm

Classification Barrow (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned), Cinerary Urn

Canmore ID 26078

Site Number NN91SE 9

NGR NN 9831 1455

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Dunning
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NN91SE 9 9831 1455.

About 1860 on Mosshead Farm there was a small mound around the top of which a wall had been built to enclose an area 30ft in diameter. It has now been almost obliterated by ploughing. On digging a trench through the mound a cist, consisting of thin flags supported by rougher stones, was found in the centre at a depth of 6ft. In the cist was some find dust and ashes.

At the same spot c.1845, while ploughing on top of the mound, the farmer found an earthenware urn with a narrow-mouth c 4" wide bulging out to a diameter of a foot, containing some bones. Unfortunately the bones and the urn, which had no bottom, were left in the field to disintergrate.

J Wilson 1872.

At NN 9831 1455, at the top of a slight slope, are the unsurveyable, spread remains of a mound, where, according to Mr Westwood (V Westwood, farmer, Mosshead, Aberuthven), the cist and urn were found. There is no trace of a wall. Nothing has been found in recent years.

Visited by OS (R D) 27 July 1967.

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