MHG14125 - BA Cist, Craigscorrie
Summary
No summary available.
Type and Period (1)
- CIST (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
Protected Status
- None recorded
Full Description
In January 1925, a Bronze Age cist was unearthed near the eastern edge of a rocky, wooden knoll, on the summit of a slight ridge. Its presence was suspected by the protrusion of a slab of conglomerate 4' square and 1'3" thick, which, when lifted proved to be the cover stone of an oval-shaped grave cut into the rock. It was 7' long, 4' wide and from 2' - 3' deep. The grave, which was full of gravelling soil, contained the remains of an incompletely incinerated human skeleton, the skull lying near the N end, facing E; the fragments of a bronze blade with midribs and grooves either side, but of too indeterminate a nature to say definitely whether they represent a dagger or a halberd (V G Childe 1944); a barbed and stemmed flint arrowhead, and a flint knife. The flints were calcined, but the bronze appeared not to have been through the fire. (The finds are now in the NMAS.)
J G Callender 1925
NH 5031 4522. All that remains of this cist is a slight depression 2.2m long, 1.3m wide and 0.3m deep. The slab 1.3m square and 0.4m thick, noted by Callander, lies at the side of the depression. Site surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 22 December 1964
(NH 5031 4522) Bronze Age Burial found 1925 (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)
The dagger is EBA (J M Coles 1971) and the flint knife is plano-convex. A S Henshall 1968.
(Bronze dagger of Armorico-British B or Cressingham type). Seven fragments of dagger with well-defined midrib flanked by hollow and cast groove on upper part of blade; towards tip midrib turns into central ridge with diamond-shaped section. Present length 12.3cm, present width 4.1cm. Associations: barbed-and-tanged flint arrowhead; plano-convex flint knife. NMAS EQ 366.
S Gerloff 1975.
This dagger was catalogued and photographed as part of the North Kessock & District Local History Society and Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH) collaborative 'Feats of Clay' Project, which was focused on Bronze Age metalworking around the Moray Firth. It was assigned an Early Bronze Age date. <1>
Finds are listed in the NMS catalogue under Acc. Nos. EQ 365- EQ 368. <2>
Sources/Archives (9)
- --- SHG1158 Text/Publication/Article: Childe, V G et al. 1944. 'Newly discovered short cist burials with beakers', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 78 1943-4, p.106-19. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 106-19. 138.
- --- SHG1189 Text/Publication/Article: Callander, J G. 1925. 'Notes on (1) a Bronze Age grave at Craigscorry, Beauly, Invernesshire and (2) two urns from Aberdeenshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 59 1924-5, p.204-10. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 204-10. 204-8.
- --- SHG1474 Text/Publication/Article: Coles, J M. 1971. 'Scottish Early Bronze Age metalwork', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 101 1968-9, p.1-110. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 1-110. 47, 90.
- --- SHG1652 Text/Publication/Article: Gerloff, S. 1975. 'The early bronze age daggers in Britain, and a reconsideration of the Wessex culture', Prahistorishe Bronzefunde Vol. 4 1975, p.Munchen. Prahistorishe Bronzefunde. Munchen. 75, no. 133.
- --- SHG21 Text/Publication/Article: Hanley, R and Sheridan, A. 1994. 'A beaker cist from Balblair, near Beauly, Inverness District', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol 124, pp 129-39. p 137.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 13, No. 65.
- --- SHG3164 Text/Publication/Article: Henshall, A S. 1968. Scottish dagger graves. SHG23464. 173-95. 190, No. 12.
- <1> SHG28012 Text/Publication/Monograph: Clark, G., Cowie, T. & Kruse, S. 2017. Feats of Clay. Cat. No. 50.
- <2> SHG28278 Dataset/Database File: National Museums Scotland. 2019. Highland Finds from the NMS Catalogue. National Museums Scotland. Digital. EQ 365- EQ 368.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 5031 4521 (4m by 4m) (2 map features) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH54NW |
| Civil Parish | KILMORACK |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
Finds (4)
- BARBED AND TANGED ARROWHEAD (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
- KNIFE (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
- HUMAN REMAINS (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
- DAGGER? (Bronze Age - 2400 BC to 551 BC)
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Related Investigations/Events (0)
External Links (1)
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/12667 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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