[{"id": 141729, "created": "2020-06-28T10:10:21.719433", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84850, "user_id": 580, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-06-28T10:41:25.286978", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c NJ 30;57", "Site": "GRAMPIAN;ORBLISTON;ORTON", "CollHist": "National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh\r\nEQ 117 (Item 1) ; Item (2) lost. FE 2 (Item 3)\r\nHistory\r\nItem 1 Presented in 1869 by Alexander Walker, who purchased the earring from a jeweller in Aberdeen. The jeweller had received the earrings from the daughters of the subcontractor for the railway line in exchange for modern jewellery. The earrings came into their possession from the navies who had found them.\r\nItem (3) recovered by the Exchequer and presented to the NMA in 1873.", "Contents": "(1) Gold Basket earring\r\n(2) Earring as (1) lost.\r\nPossibly associated :\r\n(3) Gold lunula", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec. S.H. 1.12.81.", "ContextType": "2a GRAVE", "BiblioSources": "(a) Paton (1868-70) 28-32\r\n(b) Evans (1881) 393 Fig. 492\r\n(c) Coles (1968-69) 92\r\n(d) Taylor (1980) 93 (Mr. 12-13) ; 140 N\u00b0 104, 141 N\u00b0 176", "Circumstances": "Found in 1863 at Orton, on the farm of Mr Geddes of Orbliston, during excavations for the railway from Elgin to Keith. At a spot about 200 yds N. of the Fochabers station, and about 40 yds from the \"Old Road\", the navies laid bare at the depth of 3ft from the surface of a gravelly hillock, a sandstone cist almost crumbled into sand. The cist contained a \"ridge of black dust\" and on either side of that, about a third from one end, the two ornaments were found. In August 1868 a surfaceman, while working in the ballast close to one of the sleepers on the line, and scarcely a mile on the Elgin side of the Fochabers station, brought up with his pick from among the gravel a highly ornamented gold lunette \"closely rolled up as a scroll\" (3). It is understood that the ballast had been carried, during the railway operations in 1863, from the \"gravelly hillock\" which yielded the two earrings. Refs (a) and (b) consider it is possible that the three objects may have been associated.", "FindAltSiteRel": "Formerly Morayshire"}}, {"id": 145478, "created": "2020-08-07T21:23:07.343638", "project_id": 456, "task_id": 84850, "user_id": 658, "user_ip": null, "finish_time": "2020-08-07T21:38:41.528194", "timeout": null, "calibration": null, "external_uid": null, "media_url": null, "info": {"NGR": "c. NJ 30 57", "Site": "Grampian, Orbliston, Orton", "CollHist": "Collection:\r\nNational Museum of Antiquities of Scotland, Edinburgh\r\nEQ 117 (Item 1); Iterm (2) Lost\r\nFE 2 (Item 3)\r\n\r\nHistory:\r\nItem (1) presented in 1869 by Alexander Walker, who purchased the earring from a jeweller in Aberdeen. The jeweller had received the earrings from the daughters of the subcontractor for the railway line in exchange for modern jewellry. The earrings came into their possession from the navies who had found them. \r\nItem (3) recovered by the Exchequer and presented to the NBMA in 1873.\r\n", "Contents": "(1) Gold Basket earring\r\n(2) Earring as (1). Lost.\r\n\r\nPossibly associated:\r\n(3) Gold lunula", "comments": "", "ArchiveEtc": "Rec.: S.H. 1.12.81", "ContextType": "2a Grave", "BiblioSources": "(a) Paton (1868-70) 28-32\r\n(b) Evans (1881) 393 Fig. 492\r\n(c) Coles (1968-69) 92\r\n(d) Taylor (1980) 93 (MR. 12-13); 140 No. 104, 141 No. 176\r\n", "Circumstances": "     Found in 1863 at Orton, on the farm of Mr. Geddes of Orbliston, during excavations for the railway from Elgin to Keith. At a spot about 200 yds. N of the Fochabers station, and about 40 yds. from the \"Old Road\", the navies laid bare at the depth of 3 ft. from the surface of a gravelly hillock, a sandstone cist almost crumbled into sand. The cist contained a \"ridge of black dust\" and on either side of that, about a third from the end, the two ornaments were found. In August 1868, a Surfaceman, while working in the ballast close to one of the sleepers on the line, and scarcely a mile on the Elgin side of the Fochabers station, brought up with his pick from among the gravel a highly ornamented gold lunette \"closely rolled up as a scroll\" (3). It is understood that the ballast had been carried, during the railway operations in 1863, from the \"gravelly hillock\" which yielded the two gold earrings. Refs. (a) and (b) consider it is possble that the three objects may have been associated.", "FindAltSiteRel": "Formerly Morayshire"}}]