Monument record MAB46629 - WAULKMILL, TARLAND

Several artefacts were found in a cist by a gamekeeper while digging in a sandpit in 1898.

Several artefacts were found in a cist by a gamekeeper while digging in a sandpit in 1898. The Roman finds included twelve possible 3rd-4th Century AD gaming pieces (six of quartzite, four of dark blue glass, and two of mosaic glass) and a globular studded bronze cup. Other finds included two or three pieces of steel or wrought-iron and some small bones, were found in a sandpit. A silver penannular brooch possibly dating to the latter half of the 2nd Century AD was also recovered. The finds are in the National Museum Scotland under access No.s EQ278-EQ292.

Other silver artefacts were thought to have been found in, and removed from, the same sand-hole a year later, however there is now no trace of them.

Some time after the first discovery was made, a cast bronze miniature cauldron of Santon type (Belgic affinities), was found in the same sandpit, and probably dates to the 2nd Century AD. It contained a human tooth. Twelve quartzite pebbles were also found.

COLES, JR, 1905, PSAS 39(1904-5) 206-218, 213-17 (Bibliographic reference). SAB297.

CALLANDER, JG, 1915, PSAS 49(1914-15) 203-6, 203-6 (Bibliographic reference). SAB298.

CURLE, J, 1932, PSAS 66(1931-32) 277-397, 296, 390-1 (Bibliographic reference). SAB277.

SIMPSON, WD, 1943, PROVINCE OF MAR, PLATE 45 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1676.

PIGGOTT, S, 1953, PSAS 87(1952-3) 1-50, 13,20 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1434.

ROBERTSON, A, 1970, BRITANNIA 1, TABLE VIII (Bibliographic reference). SAB1535.

MACGREGOR, M, 1976, EARLY CELTIC ART IN NORTH BRITAIN, no 299 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5066.

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