Monument record MHG10628 - Tumulus with Finds, Rogart

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 7390 0340 (16m by 16m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC70SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish ROGART

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Type and Period (2)

Full Description

NC70SW 32 739 034.

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".
NSA (written by Rev J MacKenzie - 1841) 1845.

A bronze blade 'recently' found in a cabinet at Dunrobin had a note attached which proved to Joass's satisfaction that 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 (Acc. 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.

Sources/Archives (6)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Smith, J A. 1875. 'Notice of a small bronze blade found in a sepulchral tumulus or cairn at Rogart, Sutherland, and of similar bronze implements found in different parts of Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 10 1872-4, p.431-47. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 431-47. 431-2; illust.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Coles, J M. 1966. 'Scottish Middle Bronze Age metalwork', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 97 1963-4, p.82-156. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 82-156. 149.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Piggott, C M. 1946. 'The Late Bronze Age razors of the British Isles', Proc Prehist Soc Vol. 12 1946, p.121-41. Proc Prehist Soc. 121-41. 135, no. 11; illust.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Jockenhovel, A. 1980. Die Rasiermesser in Westeuropa. 41, no. 89.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Munro, R. 1899. Prehistoric Scotland and its place in European civilisation. 190.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: NSA. 1845. The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy. Vol. 15, Sutherland, 50.

Finds (3)

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Record last edited

May 13 2016 12:00AM

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