Monument record MHG9580 - Cist and Burial, Chealamy

British Museum labs date this at 3630+/- 50. Date from bone collagen, calibrated on the Pearson &Stuiver 1986 calibration. (info from ADS; DML)

NC 722 502, Cist, Chealamy: A pit dug for a strainer-post during road-widening operations on B871 in February 1981 revealed a flat slab at a depth of 0.70m. Attempts to remove this with a jack-hammer pierced the slab, revealing a stone cist below. The site was immediately excavated, producing in intact N3 beaker accompanying a burial comprising only pelvic and leg bones. It seems likely that this is all that was originally buried. The cist was removed and reconstructed outside the Farr Museum, Bettyhill, with the beaker placed on display inside.
R B Gourlay and E Rudie 1981; Scot Mag 1981.

The find spot of the cist was pointed out on OS 6"map by Mr Gourlay (Wick Museum) at NC 7238 5017.
Visited by OS (N K B) 1 September 1982.

Chealamy Beaker (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8017.

Chealamy Cist : capstone revealed. (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG13441.

Chealamy Cist, capstone from SE (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8014.

Chealamy Cist, capstone from SE (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8015.

Chealamy Cist, capstone partially excav. (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8013.

Chealamy Cist, exposure of area of ridge (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8008.

Chealamy Cist, general view of ridge (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8016.

Chealamy Cist, general view of ridge from road (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8012.

Chealamy Cist, ridge to W (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8009.

Chealamy Cist, showing overlapping slab slates (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8011.

Chealamy Cist, site from road to SW (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8007.

Chealamy Cist, 'slates' removed (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8018.

Chealamy Cist, view from N. (Image/Photograph(s)). SHG8019.

Gourlay and Rudie, R B and E, 1981, 'Chealamy, Strathnaver (Farr p) beaker cist', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1981, p.21, 21 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG428.

Scot Mag, 1981, Scot Mag Aug 1981, p.527, 527 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG3524.

Gourlay, R B, 1985, 'A short cist beaker inhumation from Chealamy, Strathnaver, Sutherland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol 114 (1984), pp 567-71 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG67.