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<< Other Photo Pages >> Sannox Cist - Cist in Scotland in Isle of Arran

Submitted by bat400 on Saturday, 09 August 2014  Page Views: 3188

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sannox Cist
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Arran Type: Cist
 Nearest Village: Sannox
Map Ref: NS015455
Latitude: 55.662328N  Longitude: 5.157326W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Sannox Cist
Sannox Cist submitted by dodomad : Cist 1 shows the location of the cremation and imprint of the food vessel, facing south Image copyright GUARD Archaeology Ltd (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cists in Isle of Arran. Two Bronze Age cists found in an eroding cliffside at what is now a quarry. One cist contained the cremated remains of an adult, a food vessel and a sharp flint knife. The remains were dated to 2154 - 2026 BCE.

More details and photos at Culture 24

Note: Cremated bones of Bronze Age tumour sufferer found hanging from Scottish cliff.
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NS0145 : Corrie Golf Course, Isle of Arran by paul birrell
by paul birrell
©2005(licence)
NS0145 : Glen Sannox by wfmillar
by wfmillar
©2006(licence)
NS0145 : A841 leaving Sannox by Andrew Abbott
by Andrew Abbott
©2010(licence)
NS0145 : Sannox Burn by Andy Farrington
by Andy Farrington
©2012(licence)
NS0145 : Road bend in Sannox by James Allan
by James Allan
©2018(licence)

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 161m ENE 58° Sannox Bay Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NS01644558)
 289m NNW 344° Mid Sannox Standing Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NS0143345782)
 727m SSE 161° Sannox Chambered Cairn Chambered Cairn (NS017448)
 737m SW 214° South Sannox* Stone Circle (NS0106044907)
 1.1km N 353° North Sannox Chambered Cairn* Chambered Cairn (NS01424659)
 1.3km NNW 340° North Sannox Farm* Chambered Cairn (NS01114676)
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 2.2km NW 314° Allt Carn Bhain Chambered Cairn (NR99994707)
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 6.6km SSE 167° Merkland Cist Cist (NS02693896)
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 10.5km NE 40° Dunagoil* Burial Chamber or Dolmen (NS08595322)
 10.9km S 183° Glenrickard* Chambered Cairn (NS00513466)
 10.9km WNW 294° Cnoc An Uird Standing Stone (Menhir) (NR91785046)
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Re: Cremated bones of Bronze Age tumour sufferer found hanging from Scottish cliff by Andy B on Friday, 26 August 2016
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NS 015 455 A rescue excavation was carried out 28 March – 5 April 2012 under the Historic Scotland human remains call-out contract. The excavation was prompted by the discovery of cremated human remains and two short cists in the disused quarry by the estate owner. The excavation recorded a short cist that contained a deposit of cremated bone, a Bronze Age Food Vessel and a flint dagger. The second cist located beside the first was empty. Other linear features discovered nearby seemed to be associated with an old train track.

https://canmore.org.uk/site/346443/sannox-bay
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Cremated bones of Bronze Age tumour sufferer found hanging from Scottish cliff by bat400 on Monday, 28 July 2014
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A cist burial spotted hanging from a cliff on the edge of Scotland came from the ceremony of a Bronze Age adult cremated swiftly after their death, say archaeologists investigating the bones of a body whose skull carried a tumour.

Cracks and warping of the remains, which belonged to someone of indeterminate gender, suggest the body was still fleshed when it was cremated in a service accompanied by a tonne of burning wood.

The bones were secured in a daring rescue mission on the eroding face of a sand cliff at Sannox, on the Isle of Arran, where experts used a mechanical cherry picker and balanced on harnesses to remove two cists.

“All the bone was uniformly white and in a similar condition, which is evidence for a hot cremation pyre reaching temperatures in the order of 650 to 950 degrees,” says Iraia Arabaolaza, who led the team responsible for the excavation.

“It is likely that the cremation occurred soon after death.

A food vessel and a sharp knife, made with Yorkshire flint and found with the body, served both as tools and grave goods.

“Although the burial customs of the Scottish early Bronze Age varied greatly, across the period as well as from region to region, scale-flaked and plano-convex knives clearly represent an important tool,” says Torben Bjarke Ballin, a lithic expert from the University of Bradford.

“Flint knives frequently formed part of the period’s burial goods.

“The Scottish scale-flaked and plano-convex knives are most likely to also be sickles, and they probably carried out the same work as the crescent-shaped sickles of southern Britain.

“Although the piece from Sannox Quarry does not have any gloss, small flat chips were detached along its edge, indicating that it had been used prior to deposition in the cist.”

Beverley Ballin Smith, an archaeology researcher who works with National Museums Scotland, says the water-damaged vessel is unusual.

“In the suite of Bronze Age funeral ceramics, food vessels are not as common as beakers and urns and are less well known,” she explains.

“In mainland Scotland, they are frequently associated with cists with cremations.

“Although the Sannox pot follows some of the decorative motifs of Scottish food vessels, such as its bevelled rim and the slightly uncommon herring bone design, its decoration is in character comparable to those from the east coast.”

This symbolism from the other side of the land may prove that the objects were used in material exchanges.

“The paired and single incised half-circle motives can be mirrored in many places – not least York, Northumberland, Angus, Fife, and Kinross,” says Ballin Smith.

“In spite of its cracks, the pot is intact but there are significant areas of damage. These are mainly around the base, the body of the vessel just above it, and the bottom of the pot internally.

“The damage is partly due to a loss of surface caused by spalling and erosion of the fabric, partly because the vessel may have lain on the floor of the cist, and possibly because of how it was used and fired.

“The appearance of the vessel suggests that it may have stood in a hot fire. There is no sooting from flames, but the base of the pot indicates heat erosion.

“One interpretation could be that the vessel was positioned on the edge of the funeral pyre, perhaps in order to fire it during the cremation of the body.”

One of the bones from the burial – radiocarbon dated to between 2154 and 2026 BCE – was rounded into a button shape, suggesting an osteoma benign tumour which may not have caused its bearer “distress or symptoms” during their life.

Thanks to coldrum for the link. For more, see: http://www.culture24.org.uk.
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