Aberdeenshire HER - NJ81SW0011 - HILL OF BOGHEAD

Main Details

Primary Reference	NJ81SW0011
Name	HILL OF BOGHEAD
NRHE Card No.	NJ81SE16
NRHE Numlink	19552
HES SM No.	NULL
HES LB No.	NULL
Site Form	Documentary Record Only
Site Condition	Destroyed
Details	Site of a cairn. An armlet (otherwise known as a bangle) of opaque white glass and jet necklace found in 1789 by Mr John Lumsden when removing one of the larger cairns on the Hill of Boghead. The bangle was found with or in an urn containing human hair, which was in or near a stone coffin about the centre of a cairn. The bangle is made from opaque white glass completely covering inner ice-blue glass body. Inner surface has patches of opaque yellow glass and in few places corroded iron scales deriving from the manufacture are visible with naked eye. The piece is a Kilbride-Jones Type 1 glass bangle and is dated to the Roman Scottish Iron Age. The pieces of jet necklace are typically early or middle Bronze Age. Nothing is now visible of the cairn.
Last Update	15/01/2019
Updated By	bmann

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National Grid Reference: NJ 8028 1367

Event Details

Excavations and Surveys

Date M	Date Y	Type	Duration	Director / Organisation	Auspices	Fund	Extent
				UNKNOWN

Artefact and Ecofact

Date M	Date Y	Artefact Type	Finder	Recovery Method	Condition	Storage Location	Access No.
		GLASS BANGLE		Excavation		National Museum of Scotland	EQ 81
		JET NECKLACE		Excavation		National Museum of Scotland	EQ 80
		URN		Excavation		Unknown

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
CAIRNS		SITE OF	A	100
CISTS	BURIAL		B	100
URNS			C	100
NECKLACES	JET	REMAINS OF	D	100
HAIR	HUMAN	REMAINS OF	E	100
ARMLETS	GLASS	OPAQUE	F	100
BANGLES	GLASS	TYPE 1	G	100