Document record MAB55405 - MHOR CAIRN, CAIRNHILL

Site of cairn, evidently a chambered tomb with Clava affinities.

Site of cairn, evidently a chambered tomb with Clava affinities. It was described by ONB as a heap of stones, but by Anderson as a prehistoric cairn outlined by a ring of stones enclosing a circular area, the whole embedded in an elongated clearance heap. In the course of its destruction in 1894 a central sub-circular chamber apparently without a passage entrance, with two short cists and a long 1.82m earth-cut groove to its south end, within the peristalith, were found. No relics were found in the chamber. One short cist contained a cremation and the 'groove' contained a deposit of ashes and burnt bone from which five sherds of a handled beaker were recovered. Reputedly from the second cist, or very close to it, came a collection of objects - some 50 natural pebbles, a piece of amber, two Neolithic flints (a small flaked axe and a polished ovate), a small jet ring and six small glass items of Roman origin. It is probable that the Roman objects, possibly gaming pieces or ornaments, were placed in an exposed cist and covered up again.

Period Notes
Destoryed in 1894.

ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, No63(1871) 7 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.

ANDERSON, J, 1902, PSAS 36(1901-2) 675-84, 675-84 (Bibliographic reference). SAB43.

CURLE, J, 1932, PSAS 66(1931-32) 277-397, 295-6, 389-90 (Bibliographic reference). SAB277.

ROMAN GLASS BEADS

MITCHELL, MEC, 1934, PSAS 68(1933-4) 132-89, 177 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1214.

STEVENSON, RBK, 1967, ANT 41, 143-5, 143-5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1892.

ROMAN GLASS BEADS

CLARKE, DL, 1970, BEAKER POTTERY OF GB & NI, 415, FIG 1074 (Bibliographic reference). SAB228.

BEAKER

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

ROMAN GLASS BEADS

KENWORTHY, JB, 1972, RING-CAIRNS IN NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND. IN SCOT ARCH FORUM 4, 24 (Bibliographic reference). SAB998.

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