Aberdeenshire HER - NJ80NW0011 - WHITEHOUSE FARM

Main Details

Primary Reference	NJ80NW0011
Name	WHITEHOUSE FARM
NMRS Card No.	NJ80NW11
NMRS Numlink	19343
Site Form	Documentary Record Only
Site Condition	Destroyed
Details	Site of short cist, discovered in March 1905, which contained an adult male skeleton lying on left side with skull at the east end facing south. It also contained two beakers, the smaller in the south side of the cist in front of the skeleton, the other near the northeast corner touching the back of the skull. The beakers are type Ca and Cb (N/NR, N3). Three flint scrapers were also found. Artefacts now in Marischal Museum.
Last Update	05/05/2020

National Grid Reference: NJ 8094 0681

Easting: 0, Northing: 0

Compiler
Date of Compilation

Event Details

Event Date	Event Type
1905	Excavation

Excavations and Surveys

Date M	Date Y	Type	Duration	Director / Organisation	Auspices	Fund	Extent
3	1905			A LOW

Artefact and Ecofact

Date M	Date Y	Artefact Type	Finder	Recovery Method	Condition	Storage Location	Access No.
3	1905	BEAKERS	AL	Excavation		Aberdeen University Museums	19698-9
3	1905	FLINT SCRAPERS	AL	Excavation		Aberdeen University Museums	14847
3	1905	CHARCOAL	AL	Excavation		Aberdeen University Museums	14837
3	1905	HUMAN BONES	AL	Excavation		Aberdeen University Museums	14220

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1	Monument Type 2	Monument Type 3	Order	Probability
CISTS	SHORT		A	100
BONES	HUMAN	MALE	B	100
BEAKERS			C	100
SCRAPERS	FLINT		D	100

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National Status

Regional Status

Photo Details

Bibliographic Detail

Bib Ref No	Title	Author	Date	Others	Editor	Published	Details	Date M	Date Y
00385	NOTICES OF TWO STONE CISTS....PSAS 40(1905-6) 33-39	JG CALLANDER	1906				28-30
01497	PSAS 68(1933-4) 132-89	MEC MITCHELL	1934				174
01863	ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS FROM PREHIST INTERMENTS IN THE NE OF SCOTLAND IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL MUS, MARISCHAL COLLEGE	RW REID	1924				No3		1924
00001	A STUDY OF THE BRONZE AGE POTTERY OF GREAT BRITAIN & IRELAND AND ITS ASSOCIATED GRAVE-GOODS	J ABERCROMBY	1912			OXFORD	No232,233
00274	BEAKER POTTERY OF GB & NI	DL CLARKE	1970			CAMBRIDGE	319, No 317,318
02862	ELRICK ABERDEEN.ARCHAOLOGICAL DESK BASED ASSESSMENT	J. BARBER	2001	Y		AOC, EDINBURGH	17-8	6	2001
04855	BURNLAND, ELRICK: DESK-BASED ASSESSMENT	L SCOTT	2006				27	2	2006
04514	BROADSHADE, WESTHILL PIPELINE - DESK BASED ASSESSM		2008						2008

Location

Historic Administrative Area Name	Skene
Positional Accuracy	Centred at
Buffer Zone	15-20m
Buffer Type	Automated
Capture Scale	Unknown
Spatial Feature Type	Polygon: Unknown Extent

Environment

Constraints	No access.
Altitude	112
Geology
Topography	Gentle slope
Aspect 1	SW
Aspect 2	Open
Current Land Use	Arable
Vegetation
Soil Type	3s
Hydrology

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Historic Land Use

Period Details

Period	Order	Probability	Radiocarbon Dates	Date Built	Date of Destruction	Date of Loss
Bronze Age (2200 BC - 800 BC)	A	100

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