Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . contained burnt human bones, and burnt asheswere placed around them for protection. Amongst the ashesencircling one of them were found particles of ears of grain.^This and some of the other examples previously noticed showthat the people whose memorials they are buried their deadnot singly nor indiscriminately, but in spots selected for thepurpose. At Tayfield, in 1870, there were found in an urn,which was enclosed in a stone cist, fragments of a necklace,consisting of a series of plates of jet or shale, and alt
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . contained burnt human bones, and burnt asheswere placed around them for protection. Amongst the ashesencircling one of them were found particles of ears of grain.^This and some of the other examples previously noticed showthat the people whose memorials they are buried their deadnot singly nor indiscriminately, but in spots selected for thepurpose. At Tayfield, in 1870, there were found in an urn,which was enclosed in a stone cist, fragments of a necklace,consisting of a series of plates of jet or shale, and alternating]-ows of beads, which, so far as recovered, when joined together,formed a beautiful work of art. A separate triangular piecewas probably a pendant attached to the middle of the neck- ^ /\. 6. A. Forgaii, 50S. - Proc. Sue. Aiitiq. \Scot.), vi. 392. In the Oidnunce Survey Map the calm ismarked ^ of a Konian camn (sii/^J>osai).^ ?^ Jbiii., 3SS. SHEWrNO THE POSITION W WHICHTHF. URNS W-RF. FOCNB OS mHWALKERSPROPFBTY OF ]
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