Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . STONK VKSSKI, FOUND AT WIN DV( ;AIKS, T, URN OF IHE FOOD-VKSSKL TVlK, FOUND AT liATTLE LAW IN 1S73. PREHISTORIC 7 the cist, lying on its side. It measured 5^ inches in lieight,61 inches in its greatest diameter, and 5\ inches across themouth. Its outer surface was covered with bands of the herring-bone ornamentation so common on ancient Britishurns; and under the upper edge were four low, unpieiced knobsor ears. The cist contained no bones or charcoal, nor any-thing but the urn, which was en){)tv. T
Balmerino and its abbey : a parish history with notices of the adjacent district . STONK VKSSKI, FOUND AT WIN DV( ;AIKS, T, URN OF IHE FOOD-VKSSKL TVlK, FOUND AT liATTLE LAW IN 1S73. PREHISTORIC 7 the cist, lying on its side. It measured 5^ inches in lieight,61 inches in its greatest diameter, and 5\ inches across themouth. Its outer surface was covered with bands of the herring-bone ornamentation so common on ancient Britishurns; and under the upper edge were four low, unpieiced knobsor ears. The cist contained no bones or charcoal, nor any-thing but the urn, which was en){)tv. This having been care-fully removed, the upper slab of the cist was replaced, and thewhole covered over with soil. The cist appeared to belong tothe Bronze Age. There were indications of the existence ofother cists near the same spot, which liave not yet been ex-cavated. In connection with the urn thus discovered, it isworthy of notice that a cist was found in 1860 at Mill ofInvergowrie, containing an urn very similar to it, and placedalso in its south-east corner, such a position probablv indicatingsome symbolic meaning now unknow
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