Building record MAB11305 - FOULFORD BRIDGE

Remains of a Bronze Age cairn and site of a cairn.The eastern cairn was opened during gravel digging in 1820 when a large cinerary urn and two smaller urns were reputed to have been found.

Remains of a Bronze Age cairn and site of a cairn.The eastern cairn was opened during gravel digging in 1820 when a large cinerary urn and two smaller urns were reputed to have been found. In about 1864 a short cist containing a small broken urn was found in the north part of the western cairn, and another small cist found in its south part. In the late 19th century (circa 1897) the east cairn was said to have been an artificial hillock of gravel 27.43m long which had been levelled by digging, whilst the west cairn was almost a circular mound 12.19m in diameter and 1.82m high. In 1897 workmen laying a track for the Cullen water system recovered an inverted cinerary urn and another small urn from their trench. The small urn was upright and contained a cremation. With the urns were a barbed and tanged arrowhead and a chisel-headed bone pin. OS site visit in 1964 recorded that the easterly one was a small mound of stones and earth circa 10.8m in diameter and 2m high, severely mutilated on the north side side and covered by heather and fir trees. No remains of the west cairn were located at that time. Finds in NMAS with accession nos EQ 243-249, unable to allocate numbers.

CRAMOND, W, 1895, T BANFF FC,22-23, 22 (Bibliographic reference). SAB311.

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CRAMOND, W, 1897, PSAS 31(1896-7) 216-19, 196,219-23 (Bibliographic reference). SAB309.

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