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Description: | Rectangular piece of schist with rounded corners, two parallel lines incised around perimeter, a hole at two adjacent corners; Found underneath an urn 'at a depth of about an inch under the place where the urn had rested' at Seggiecrook, Kennethmont, Abe
"From 'Notice of Two Cinerary Urns and a pendant of slate found at Seggiecrook': 'On the 16th of October last, while excavating material for mending roads, in a gravel-pit on the farm of Seggiecrook, in the parish of Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, some roadmen exposed the rim of an urn, without, however, happening to notice it. Fortunately they stopped their work before the urn had got displaced or damaged [...]. That evening it was discovered by Mr Peter Gordon, son of the farmer, and by a friend who was along with him. They took great care in removing the vessel from the sand and gravel in which it was imbedded, and succeeded in getting it out intact, though badly cracked. [...] The same day, after the urn had been removed, and before anyone had disturbed the place where it had been found, Mr Gordon returned to the place, and using his pocket-knife he carefully picked away the bottom and sides of the pocket in which the urn had sat, in the hope that some relic might be found. At a depth of about an inch under the place where the urn had rested, a small thin pendant of slate, ornamented and perforated, was discovered. Mr Gordon could not say whether this object had been originally placed in the bottom, or whether it had fallen down from the walls of the pocket, but there is no doubt that it had been deposited in the material immediately surrounding the urn. It is roughly oblong in shape, with rounded corners, and is perforated at each of the two corners adjoining one of the long sides. If this object were suspended for wear its longer axis would assume a horizontal position."
Author: Callander,J.Graham Date: 1905 Purpose: PSAS.Volume39
"Pottery vessel ('food vessel'), filled with intoxicating liquor and placed in a grave, Blackhills, Tyrie (1800-1200BC)."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"During the Bronze Age a new style of individual burial appeared, the body being either interred in a stone-lined cist or contained in an urn as a cremation. Usually objects, including beakers or food-vessels and other items relating to the status of the person, accompanied the body. This cremation was found at Seggiecrook, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire in 1904 and probably dates from the later Bronze Age. The collared urn contained burned human bone and several pieces of burned flint. Underneath the urn was this pendant amulet made from a small thin rectangle of schist, with a hole at two adjacent corners and incised with a geometric design."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Leith, Hay , Mr | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 1800 BC-600 BC; MBA LBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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