Monument record MHG13292 - Cist w Finds, Muie
Summary
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 6700 0399 (6m by 6m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NC60SE |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Old County | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | ROGART |
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Type and Period (3)
Full Description
A cist, 3 1/2ft long and 3ft wide was opened by the author at Muie (NC 67 04). It contained a skeleton. "Under this skeleton and apparently in quite a different matrix were the pieces of a broken urn with the usual herring bone ornamentation, and among the fragments some black, greasy, charred matter, which seemed to me to contain fragments of bone. There was one well-finished flint arrowhead, which seemed to have formed a part of the contents of the urn. In this case there seemed to me to have been two different burials in the same cist."
L Tait 1870.
No further information found during field investigation.
Visited by OS (W D J) 7 July 1963.
The urn, a Food Vessel, has been restored and is in Dunrobin Museum (Acc No: 1896.1). It is 5ins high and 5.5ins rim diameter and 2.9ins at base. It is said to have been found in 1867.
Information from TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum by A S Henshall.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG1227 Text/Publication/Article: Tait, L. 1870. 'Notes on the shell mounds, hut-circles, and kist-vaens of Sutherlands', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 7 1866-8, p.525-32. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 525-32. 530.
Finds (3)
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
May 13 2016 12:00AM
