Monument record MHG2908 - Cist w burial & beads, Morayston Farm
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 7500 4899 (6m by 6m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH74NE |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | PETTY |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Full Description
NH74NE 2 75 49.
Two stone cists were found on the farm of Moraytown, in the parish of Dalcross, Inverness, on the 19th and the 21st of June 1899.
Both cists were short, about 4 feet 3 inches by 2 feet 2 inches and each contained a doubled-up skeleton. One of them also contained three small flat jet beads. The skull from the grave is now in Inverness museum (Morayston is actually in the parish of Petty)
T Wallace 1900; 1921.
There is a skull in the Inverness Museum which comes from a 'pre-historic grave' in the parish of Petty. It was presented by Thomas Wallace.
T Wallace 1917.
This skull is in the Inverness Museum; but no siting information was encountered. The exhibition card in the museum would seem to suggest that this is the same skull as referred to by Wallace (1900; 1917; 1920) Enquiries at Morayston failed to establish the precise site of these finds; but the farmer said that it was local knowledge that cists had been found at Tom na Croiche (NH74NE 1) so it is possible that that site produced cists in 1899 as well as in 1860.
Visited by OS (J L D) 23 March 1962.
Sources/Archives (4)
- --- SHG1224 Text/Publication/Article: Wallace, T. 1921. 'Notes on the parish of Petty', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 8 1912-18, p.155-74. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 155-74. 158.
- --- SHG193 Text/Publication/Article: Wallace, T. 1900. 'Archaeological notes from Moraytown, Dalcross, Inverness-shire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 34 1899-1900, p.215-7. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 215-7. 215.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 14, No. 76.
- --- SHG2908 Text/Publication/Volume: Wallace, T. 1917. Guide to Inverness Museum. 27.
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Record last edited
May 13 2016 12:00AM
