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Bute, Craigmore

Short Cist (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)

Site Name Bute, Craigmore

Classification Short Cist (Bronze Age), Food Vessel (Bronze Age)

Alternative Name(s) Auchanross

Canmore ID 40706

Site Number NS16NW 2

NGR NS 1048 6538

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kingarth
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Buteshire

Archaeology Notes

NS16NW 2 c. 10 65.

A food vessel, found in a cist when a house was being extended at Craigmore (NS 10 65), is in Bute Museum. Neither Accession number nor date of find is noted, and no further information was obtained.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 15 January 1964

Fragments of a food vessel, found a few years before 1930 while digging in the late Sheriff Martin's garden at Craigmore, are in Bute Museum.

J N Marshall 1930; V G Childe 1946.

The exact findspot of this cist has never been established. The Food Vessel is still in Bute Museum.

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 17 June 2009.

Activities

Reference (1930)

Reference (1946)

Field Visit (15 January 1964)

A food vessel, found in a cist when a house was being extended at Craigmore (NS 10 65), is in Bute Museum. Neither Accession number nor date of find is noted, and no further information was obtained.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 15 January 1964

Field Visit (17 June 2009)

The exact findspot of this cist has never been established. The Food Vessel is still in Bute Museum.

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 17 June 2009.

Note (15 May 2012)

Recent research, undertaken to identify the exact location of a cist discovered ‘in the late Sheriff Martin’s garden’ in the early 20th century (Marshall 1930, 56), suggests it lies within a plot now occupied by nine recently constructed residential buildings (NS16NW 161).

The 1911 census records Martin living at 61 Mount Stuart Road, the same house where he died in April 1930, though the statutory register of deaths records that it was called ‘Auchanross’ at that time. In 1964 the OS noted that the cist had been found ‘when a house was being extended’, and successive editions of the OS 25- inch map (Buteshire, Sheet 204.3) show that considerable alterations were made to the property between 1896 and 1915, including a large extension to the rear (south) side and the erection of at least three glasshouses in the large garden. Therefore, whilst it is very likely that the cist was discovered at or very close to the site of the extension (NS 1048 6538), there is also the possibility that it was found elsewhere in the garden.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 15 May 2012.

Note

Fragments of a food vessel, found a few years before 1930 while digging in the late Sheriff Martin's garden at Craigmore, are in Bute Museum.

J N Marshall 1930; V G Childe 1946.

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