Canmore Site 39480: POLTALLOCH - KILMARTIN - CIST(S) (BRONZE AGE), CUP MARKED STONE (PREHISTORIC), STONE SETTING(S) (NEOLITHIC) - (BRONZE AGE), BEAKER, FOOD VESSEL
Description
Site Name | POLTALLOCH |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NR89NW 38 |
Broad Class | MONUMENT (BY FORM), FOOD PREPARATION AND CONSUMPTION, RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY, CONTAINER |
Site Type(s) | CIST(S) (BRONZE AGE), CUP MARKED STONE (PREHISTORIC), STONE SETTING(S) (NEOLITHIC) - (BRONZE AGE), BEAKER, FOOD VESSEL |
NGR | NR 8212 9735 |
NGR accuracy | NGR given to the nearest 10m |
Local Authority | ARGYLL AND BUTE |
Parish | KILMARTIN |
Record created | 1988-03-21 |
Last updated | 2000-04-12 |
Archaeology Notes
NR89NW 38 8212 9735
(NR 822 973) Three cists were revealed by gravel digging about 200 yds NE of the settlement area (NR89NW 11) and further along the same gravel terrace. One had been smashed by the mechanical digger, but a large capstone, with 70 cup-marks, survived, and a large quantity of human bones, mostly cremated, were recovered by the excavators from a hollow in the gravel where the grave had been. A few feet immediately N, was a short cist, containing a crouched inhumation and a beaker. 4' S of this cist was a longer cist, 4'6" internally, containing a food vessel. The beaker and food vessel were in the NMAS for treatment in 1962.
E R Cregeen amd S Cregeen 1961; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
NR 8211 9735. Only one cist measuring 0.9m x 0.6m x o.2m remains exposed at this site. The cup marked capstone is as described and lies 2.0m SW of the cist.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (I A) 30 April 1973.
The cist and capstone lie in the SE extremity of the flat top (10.0m diameter) of a 2.6m high small, natural mound which is situated on a level, alluvial terrace. A stone 1.6m by 0.6m bearing over 12 cup marks lies 9.0m to the NW of the cist; it does not appear to cover a cist. A shallow depression in the ground 2.0m SE of this stone may mark the site of a cist.
Cist surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (T R G) 16 February 1977.
Identifiers and Links to Other Records
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NMS Primary Reference: 681523 | X.2009.103 - Knife | Created as inverse of link supplied with NMS Archaeology Object |
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