Document record MAB56231 - HILL OF BOGHEAD
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Summary
Site of a cairn.
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NJ 8028 1367 (40m by 40m) Location only - Point |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NJ81SW |
| Authority | Aberdeenshire |
| Civil Parish | Kintore |
Type and Period (3)
Full Description
Site of a cairn. An armlet (otherwise known as a bangle) of opaque white glass and jet necklace found in 1789 by Mr John Lumsden when removing one of the larger cairns on the Hill of Boghead. The bangle was found with or in an urn containing human hair, which was in or near a stone coffin about the centre of a cairn. The bangle is made from opaque white glass completely covering inner ice-blue glass body. Inner surface has patches of opaque yellow glass and in few places corroded iron scales deriving from the manufacture are visible with naked eye. The piece is a Kilbride-Jones Type 1 glass bangle and is dated to the Roman Scottish Iron Age. The pieces of jet necklace are typically early or middle Bronze Age. Nothing is now visible of the cairn.
Period Notes
The glass bangle is a Kilbride-Jones Type 1 .
ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, No51(1864) 124 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.
GLASS ARMLET
KILBRIDE-JONES, HE, 1938, PSAS 72(1937-8) 367-372, 382-90, FIG 5 No2 (Bibliographic reference). SAB967.
Author unknown, n.d., NSA, (1843) 659 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1269.
GLASS ARMLET
Other Statuses/References
- Authority: ASH;
- NMR Card Number: NJ81SE16;
- NRHE Numlink: 19552;
- Old Historic Environment Record Ref: NJ81SW0011;
External Links (1)
- https://www.trove.scot/place/19552 (trove.scot link)
Sources/Archives (3)
Finds (6)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
Related Events/Activities (1)
Record last edited
Jan 15 2019 2:21PM
