Summary

Animal bones from Cist 3, Gairneybank, Kinross, Kinross-shire

Accession Number

X.2009.122.2

Other references

None

Original description

X.2009.122 Miscellaneous material from Bronze Age cists found at Gairneybank, Kinross, Kinross-shire (NGR NT 127 988; see RCAHMS no NT19NW 9). See Cowie , T & Ritchie, J N G 'Bronze Age burials at Gairneybank, Kinross-shire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 121 (1991), 95-109. Includes X.2009.122.1 sample of clay luting and fragments of the limestone cist slabs from Cist 3, Gairneybank, Kinross; X.2009.2 animal bones labelled in Prof A Young’s handwriting ‘Gairneybank Cist 3, (23b) Could be pig. R humerus; Bag with bone labelled in Prof A Young’s handwriting ‘ From Gairneybank Cist 3 (8) (9). R radius and ulna immature pig same as 23b. Compare with Muirhall specimen’

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Gairneybank, Kinross, Kinross-shire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

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Acquisition

Acquisition date

2009-08

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

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