Monument record MHG25209 - Arrowhead in cairn, Boath
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 5799 7299 (14m by 14m) (Buffered by site type) |
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| Map sheet | NH57SE |
| Geographical Area | ROSS AND CROMARTY |
| Old County | ROSS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | ALNESS |
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Full Description
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User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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NH57SE 6 c. 58 73
A leaf-shaped arrowhead, 1.5ins in length, 'said to have been found in a cairn at Boath' was exhibited to members of the Society by William Urquhart, FSA Scot., Evanton, in 1890, along with an oval flint knife, found in the vicinity of the cairn.
PSAS 1890.
No further information was found during field investigation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 4 May 1963.
These items may have come from either Boath Long or Boath Short chambered cairn (NH57SE 2 or 3, at NH 5814 7383 and NH 5833 7395 respectively). Now lost. (But cf. NH67SW 18.)
A S Henshall 1963.
Sources/Archives (2)
- --- SHG357 Text/Publication/Monograph: Henshall, A S. 1963. The chambered tombs of Scotland, Volume 1. 313, SUT 20; plan, fig. 61.
- --- SHG617 Text/Publication/Article: PSAS. 1894. 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library, with exhibits', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 28 1893-4, p.5-9, 58-62, 119-25, 178-85, 213-18, 234-43. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 5-9, 58-62, 119-25, 178-8. 59.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
