Find Spot record MAB47451 - HILL OF FOULZIE

Four cinerary urns from long cairn NJ75NW0006, donated to NMAS by Banff Town Council in 1938.

Four cinerary urns from long cairn NJ75NW0006, donated to NMAS by Banff Town Council in 1938. Urn EA 225 is 305mm in height and has a bevelled rim, with a raised encircling moulding 108mm below rim on exterior. EA 226, found inverted over cremated bone, measures 420mm high, 368mm at mouth, 82mm at base. The interior of the rim is decorated by rectangular panels separated by vertical bars. The exterior has a single row of comb decoration, five teeth, round rim and inverted large 'Y-shaped' applied mouldings running round from rim to shoulder. EA 227, found inverted over cremated bone in built cavity, measures 438mm high, 350mm at mouth, 101mm at base. The interior has four rows of diagonal slashes on bevelled rim, and the exterior has herringbone pattern round rim below which are curved rows of impressed dots contained within an applied moulding of a wave shape from below neck to shoulder, round pot. EA 228, found inverted over cremated bones and packed round with red clay, measures 348mm at mouth. It has been restored. The interior of the rim has rows of horizontal lines divided by a line of incised spaced dots, and the exterior has 13 horizontal lines below which are groups of eight diagonal lines alternating in direction from left to right. Below these the body has nail decoration in roughly diagonal lines.

GORDON, JT, 1902, T. BANFF FC, 24-45, 33-5,39,41,43,45 (Bibliographic reference). SAB646.

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DONATIONS & PURCHASES, 1939, PSAS 73(1938-9), 328, ILL (Bibliographic reference). SAB964.

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HENSHALL, AS, 1963, CHAMBERED TOMBS OF SCOT 1, 395 (Bibliographic reference). SAB724.

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