[{"id": 136046, "created": "2020-04-12T09:21:36.546326", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84152, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-04-12T09:59:15.833773", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "NR 767;154", "Site": "STRATHCLYDE;Nr CAMPBELTOWN;BALNABRAID CAIRN", "CollHist": "Items (1-3) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (4) as above (from 1966 excavation)\r\nItem (5) Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N\u00b0 A.130\r\nItem (6) Campbeltown Museum\r\nItem (7) Hunterian Museum Glasgow Inv. N\u00b0 A.129\r\nItem (8) Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N\u00b0 A.136\r\nItem (9) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (10) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (11) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (12) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (13) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (14) Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N\u00b0 B.1951, 286\r\nItem (15-19) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\nItem (20) lost\r\nItem (21) ? Hunterian\r\nItem (22) Hunterian B.1951 285, 287", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Two fragments of fused bronze, apparently undecorated\r\n(2) Many fragments of what seems to have been a strip of sheet bronze decorated with three horizontal ribs along each edge with vertical ribbing between.\r\n(3) Several fragments of sheet bronze with repouss\u00e9 decoration\r\n(4) Tanged razor (Piggott's Class 1) ; part of tang missing\r\nOther\r\n(5) Food Vessel\r\n(6) Cordoned urn\r\n(7) Beaker (Clarke's N3 group).\r\n(8) Food Vessel\r\n(9) Sherds of a cinerary urn\r\n(10) Rim and body sherds of a Food Vessel\r\n(11) Indeterminate sherds of red and grey gritty ware\r\n(12) Two jet disc beads\r\n(13) Bone toggle\r\n(14) Red sandstone rubber\r\n(15) Small triangular flake with secondary working\r\n(16) Flint flake knife\r\n(17) Flint flake knife\r\n(18) Flint flake knife\r\n(19) Calcined flint flake\r\n(20) Flint flake (lost)\r\n(21) Quartz pebbles\r\nPossibly from \"Hut-site\" with flint chippings\r\n(22) Thirty-nine pieces of flint flakes, some worked, and a core", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 24.2.82.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Mc Kinlay (1910-11) 434-436\r\n(b) Galloway (1919-20) 172-191\r\n(c) Ritchie (1967) 81-98\r\n(d) Coles (1968-69) 92, 94, 97\r\n(e) Clarke II (1970) 443, 462 N\u00b0 1533\r\n(f) R.C.A.M. Argyll. I (1971) 38-39 N\u00b0 14", "Circumstances": "The cairn was first dug into in 1910, when erosion of the bank near the stream had exposed a cinerary urn (9). The site was further examined in 1913 and in 1966 excavation was carried out by J.N.G. Ritchie for the R.C.A.M. Twelve cists were found :\r\nCist 1 : cremation with quarts pebbles (21)\r\nCist 2 : cremation, unaccompanied\r\nCist 3 : nothing found\r\nCist 4 : cremation with Food Vessel (5)\r\nCist 5 : cremation with Cordoned urn (6) inverted over it and a bone toggle (13) bronze fragments (1-3) and a flint flake (15). Some of the burnt bones were stained green.\r\nCist 6 : ? inhumation with a Beaker (7) two jet beads (12) and a flint knife (16)\r\nCist 7 : nothing certainly known (see below cist 12).\r\nCist 8 : no information\r\nCist 9 : two burials. Above, an inhumation with a Food Vessel (8) and two flint knives (17-18) ; below a cremation with a flint flake (19).\r\nCist 10 : cremation with a flint flake (20). Fragments of a cinerary urn (9) found \"nearby\" might possibly refer to either Cist 10 or 11.\r\nCist 12 : A rim sherd of a Food Vessel found in Cist 12 in the 1966 excavationis is identical to a number of Food Vessel sherds found in 1910, deposited in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum and marked \"N. Cist\", which in ref (a) indicates Cist 12. Reference (b) assigned the sherds to cist 7 but (c) suggests that the 1966 sherd and the labelling of the Glasgow fragments seem better evidence of the provenance of this Food Vessel. A red sandstone rubber (14) also came from this cist.\r\nA bronze razor (4) cas found in 1966 in a disturbed part of the cairn. In the body of the cairn some red gritty potsherds had been found i nthe earlier explorations and one small rim sherd of grey gritty ware in 1966 (11). Some 39 pieces of yellow flint flakes and a core (22) in the Hunterian Museum are marked \"from the excavations at Balnabraid\" and these may have come from the so-called \"Hut-site with flint chippings\" - see ref. (b) 175.", "FindAltSiteRel": "Kintyre, Argyll"}}, {"id": 139636, "created": "2020-05-19T20:24:56.746923", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84152, "user_id": 1998, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-05-19T20:25:06.363548", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "NR 767; 154", "Site": "Strathclyde; N? Campbeltown; Balnabraid; Cairn", "CollHist": "Items (1-3) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\n   \"      (4)  as above (from 1966 excavation)\r\n   \"      (5)  Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N*. A.130\r\n   \"       (6) Campbeltown Museum\r\n   \"       (7) Hunterian Museum Glasgow  Inv. N* A.129\r\n   \"       (8) Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N* A.136\r\n   \"       (9) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum \r\n   \"       (10) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum \r\n   \"       (11) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum \r\n   \"       (12) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum \r\n   \"       (13) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum \r\n   \"       (14) Hunterian Museum, Glasgow Inv. N* B. 1951, 286\r\n   \"       (15-19) Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum\r\n   \"       (20) lost\r\n   \"       (21) ? Hunterian \r\n   \"       (22) Hunterian  B. 1951 285,287", "Contents": "Metal\r\n(1) Two fragments of fused bronze, apparently undecorated\r\n(2) Many fragment of what seem to have been a strip of sheet bronze decorated with three horizontal ribs along each edge with vertical ribbing between.\r\n(3) Several fragments of sheet bronze with ?repoursi decoration\r\n(4) Tanged razor (Piggott's Class I); part of tang missing\r\nOther\r\n(5) Food Vessel\r\n(6) Cordoned urn\r\n(&) Beaker (Clarke's  N3 group)\r\n(8) Food Vessel\r\n(9) Sherds of cinerary urn\r\n(10) Rim and body sherds of a Food Vessel\r\n(11) Indeterminate sherds of red and grey gritty ware\r\n(12) Two jet disc beads\r\n(13) Bone toggle\r\n(14) Red sandstone rubber\r\n(15) Small triangular flake with secondary working\r\n(16) Flint flake knife\r\n(17) Flint flake knife\r\n(18) Flint flake knife\r\n(19) Calcined flint knife\r\n(20) Flint flake (lost)\r\n(21) Quartz pebbles\r\nPossibly from \"Hut-site with flint chippings\r\n(22) Thirty-nine pieces of flint flakes, some worked, and a core\r\n", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "/ S.H.24.2.82", "ContextType": "2a Grave", "BiblioSources": "(a) McKinay (1910-11) 434-436\r\n(b) Galloway (1919-20) 172-191\r\n(c) Ritchie (1967) 81-98\r\n(d) Coles (1968-69) 92, 94, 97\r\n(e) Clarke II (1970) 443, 462 N* 1533\r\n(f) R.C.A.M. Argyll I (1971) 38-39 N* 14", "Circumstances": "The cavern was first dug into in 1910, when erosion of the bank near the stream had exposed a cinerary urn (9).  The site was further examined in 1913 and in 1966 excavation was carried out by J.N.G. Ritchie from the R.C.A.M.  Twelve cists were found:\r\nCist 1: cremation with quartz pebbles (21)\r\nCist 2: cremation, unaccompanied\r\nCist 3: nothing found\r\nCist 4: cremation with Food Vessels (5)\r\nCist 5: cremation with cordoned urn (6)  inverted over it and a bone toggle (13) bronze fragments (1-3) and a flint flake (15).  Some of the burnt bronze were stained green.\r\nCist 6: ? Inhumation with a Beaker (7) two jet beads (12) and a flint knife (16)\r\nCist 7: nothing certainly known (see below cist 12)\r\nCist 8: no information\r\nCist 9: two burials.  Above, an inhumation with a Food vessel (8) and two flint knives (17-18); below, a cremation with a flint flake (19).\r\nCist 10: cremation with flint flake (20) Fragments of a cinerary urn (9) found \"nearby\" might possibly refer to either Cist 10 or 11. \r\nCist 12: A ?rim sherd of a Food Vessel found in Cist 12 in the 1966 excavations is identical to a number of Food Vessel sherds found in 1910, deposited in the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum and marked \"N.Cist\", which in ref(a) indicates Cist 12.  Reference (b) assigned the sherds to Cist 7 but (c) suggests that the 1966 sherd and the labelling of the Glasgow fragments seem better evidence of the prominence of the Food Vessel.  A red sandstone rubber (14) also came from the cist.\r\n\r\nA bronze razor (4) was found in 1966 in a disturbed part of the cavern.  In the body of the cavern some red gritty potsherds had been found in the earlier explorations and one small rim sherd of grey gritty ware in 1966 (11).  Some 39 pieces of yellowy flint flakes and a core (22) in the Hunterian Museum are marked \"from the excavations at Balnabraid\" and these may have come from the so-called \"Hut-site with flint chippings\" see ref (b) 175", "FindAltSiteRel": "Kintyre; Argyll"}}]