Canmore Site 16534: SLEEPIES HILL - URQUHART - CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), BEAKER(S)
Description
Site Name | SLEEPIES HILL |
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Other Name(s) | n/a |
Site Number | NJ26SE 20 |
Broad Class | MONUMENT (BY FORM), FOOD PREPARATION AND CONSUMPTION, CONTAINER |
Site Type(s) | CAIRN (PERIOD UNASSIGNED), BEAKER(S) |
NGR | NJ 296 614 |
Local Authority | MORAY |
Parish | URQUHART |
Record created | 1988-02-29 |
Last updated | 2000-04-12 |
Archaeology Notes
NJ26SE 20 centred 296 614.
Two beakers from Sleepies Hill (Sleepieshill Wood - NJ 296 614) are in Elgin Museum. One (1853.1) was donated in 1853; the other after 1860 (J Anderson and G F Black 1888) (1888.7 - ? therefore donated in 1888). No details are known of their finding.
J Anderson and G F Black 1888; I C Walker 1967.
A bowl-shaped beaker in the museum is noted in the inventory as 'found in 1853 in a cist in a cairn on Sleepies Hill'.
Visited by OS (A A) 17 May 1971; Information from Elgin Museum Acc Reg.
In Elgin Museum are an incomplete Clarke-type S4 beaker and a Bowl-type beaker, from Sleepies Hill, donor and date unknown. Acc Nos: 1888.7 & 1853.1.
D L Clarke 1970.
No further information (but see NJ26SE 27. - cairn).
Visited by OS (A A) 8 February 1972.
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