Monument record MHG45268 - Kintradwell Links

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 9300 0795 (6m by 6m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC90NW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish CLYNE

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Full Description

NC90NW 12 9300 0795.
Cists found AD 1850 - 1870 (NAT). OS 6"map, (1964)

Many short cists have been found close to Cinn Trolla Broch (NC90NW 5). About 100 yards from it three short cists were found (about 1865) containing fragments of bone.
In one was found a bone needle and in another a shale nodule; close by was found a flint flake. Immediately under the centre one of the three cists was found a cist, 5ft 5ins long, containing an extended adult skeleton but no relics.
A skull and the shale nodule were presented to the NMAS.
J Y Simpson 1865; L Tait 1870.

A short distance W of the ruin of Wilkhouse several cists were found at different times between 1850 and 1870. Many of them contained human bones. Name Book 1873.

In Dunrobin Castle Museum are a bone needle and flint scraper "from a cist containing a skeleton found near "Beach Fort" (Broch), Kintradwell, 1865.
Visited by OS (W D J) 3 April 1962.

Acc Nos 1865.1 and 2
Info from TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum, by A S Henshall.
Previous find. Nothing visible during field survey.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Simpson, J Y. 1865. 'An account of two barrows at Spottiswood, Berwickshire, opened by Lady John Scott', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 5 1862-4, p.222-4. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 222-4. 243.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: PSAS. 1870. 'Donations to and purchaese for the Museum and Library, and exhibits in the Museum', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 7 1866-8, p.7-10,36-56,105-10,137-9,198-200,220-1,. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 7-10,36-56,105-10,137-9,1. 478.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Tait, L. 1870. 'Account of cists opened at Kintradwell, Sutherlandshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 7 1866-8, p.512-15. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 512-15. 512-16.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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